After months on paid leave, Portland Public Schools’ communications director resigning
The head of Portland Public Schools’ communications department is resigning, after spending seven months on paid leave then negotiating a $90,000 payout.
Portland Public Schools voters unwilling to raise property tax for education, poll finds
In the January poll, 62% of respondents said they were inclined to vote to renew a levy, but voters balked at raising the rate.
Storm-damaged elementary school won’t reopen until ‘late fall,’ Portland Public Schools says
A Southwest Portland elementary school that’s been closed since January’s ice storm is unlikely to reopen until at least late 2024, Portland Public Schools officials now say.
With limited state money for summer school, some districts — including Portland — get skunked
Many metro-area school districts are eligible for a slice of the $30 million that Oregon lawmakers recently set aside for summer school. The state's largest school district isn't among them.
Former state schools chief named interim superintendent in Eugene
The former head of the Oregon Department of Education has been tapped as the interim superintendent of the Eugene school district, the seventh largest in the state.
Mystery explained: Concerns over mission creep, lack of focus prompted school districts to break with Portland-based education nonprofit
Concerns about mission creep, a lack of focus, time-consuming meetings and uncertainty about the overall value of the organization’s work led Multnomah County school district leaders to sever ties with educational equity nonprofit All Hands Raised, several superintendents said this week.
Oregon school district, running out of money, loses superintendent
The superintendent resigned just two days after budget officials said the district was in danger of running out of money to pay its employees by the end of June.
Portland wants to place high-need special education students in their neighborhood schools. Can the district make it work?
Over the next eight years or so, Portland Public Schools will no longer send students with disabilities except those with the most profound needs, such as severe emotional disorders, to schools outside their neighborhoods.
Debate over Middle East conflict flares as students, some educators stage walkout in Portland
Hundreds of Portland high school students and some of their teachers streamed out of schools Friday afternoon to protest ongoing bloodshed in Gaza, the latest sign that the crisis in the Middle East has emerged as a touchstone cause for the city’s vocal activist community.
Portland school board members weigh pros, cons of transparency as they launch superintendent search
By the end of this week, the window to apply to lead Oregon’s largest school district will open, kicking off a superintendent selection process that’s scheduled to wrap up by late May.But Portland Public Schools board members are still wrangling over how transparent that process should be.
7 Portland-area school districts cut ties with nonprofit that shines a light on data
The leaders of six Multnomah County school districts and the region’s education service district have quietly severed ties with All Hands Raised, an educational equity nonprofit that is a Portland philanthropic mainstay.
Beverly Cleary character sculptures badly need maintenance, Grant Park neighbors say
The sculpture garden opened in 1995 and quickly became a destination.