Portland Public Schools
Portland Public Schools serves 47,000 students, from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. That includes students at 85 regular school buildings, as well as alternative schools, charter schools and education services provided at other locations for students with special needs.
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Portland OR 97227
503-916-2000
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Nov 21, 2008WWIRE from Willamette Week
Long Island's Hempstead Union Free School District decided last night to rename Ludlum Elementary School for President-elect Barack Obama. And the change takes effect immediately, according to a receptionist in the Hempstead school-board office today.
Which makes Strong Island WAY cooler than Portland (by virtue of its swift action alone.)*
You might recall Portland Public Schools [...]
Nov 21, 2008The Portland Tribune
The clothes in Sharon Meigh-Chang's closet are disappearing fast.
Jeans, shirts, winter coats and other assorted items at the Portland Public Schools PTA Clothing Center have been scooped up by students at a higher rate this year than ever before.
The clothing center, a resource for ...
Nov 18, 2008WWIRE from Willamette Week
Portland Public Schools' student achievement committee looked at Jefferson High School's progress today, just a couple of weeks after announcing the closure of the Young Men's Academy at Jeff.
Here are some highlights from the meeting:
? Jefferson may pilot a program to extend the school day to 6 p.m. to provide "real opportunities and choices for [...]
Nov 13, 2008WWIRE from Willamette Week
Portland Public Schools is inching closer to talking about its high schools. The evidence? Local outfit Pyramid Communications recently won the bid to lead those discussions.
This news has been a long time coming.
Almost one year ago, Portland Public Schools started holding community meetings to discuss the state of the district's buildings. But school-district leaders [...]
Nov 14, 2008WWIRE from Willamette Week
Back in July, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation looking at allegations that Portland Public Schools wasn't adequately serving its English-language learners. The inquiry was to focus on Madison, Roosevelt and Marshall high schools.
But according to a letter dated Oct. 30, the federal civil rights office has decided to drop [...]
Nov 12, 2008WWIRE from Willamette Week
If you're still going through elections withdrawal, help is on the way. The next big elections locally are in the spring for Portland Public Schools. Here's the rundown:
Sonja Henning, who represents Zone 5 on the Portland Public Schools Board of Education, has said she won't run for a second term. (Which may explain this public [...]
Nov 11, 2008WWIRE from Willamette Week
Students at Southeast Portland's awkwardly named Clark K-8 @ Binnsmead have devised an ingenious marketing campaign for their school — and they're not even charging for their ideas. (Though that would be par for the course in Portland Public Schools.)
Ralph Leftwich, a school volunteer at Clark, reports that the day after the Nov. 4 election [...]
Nov 10, 2008WWIRE from Willamette Week
Last year, WW reported on local education activist Lynn Schore's efforts to figure out what happened to a $5.2 million federal grant to Portland Public Schools.
The news on that front now appears worse than originally described.
Background: The grant was announced in 2004 just as former Superintendent Vicki Phillips was starting her gig at PPS and [...]
from the Portland Public Schools feed...Parents, students, community members and educators are invited to attend one of two work sessions on Tuesday, Nov. 6 to continue developing a facilities plan for Portland Public Schools.
Oct 23, 2007
Portland Public School's property tax rate rose this year after Portland voters approved a five-year local option levy with a 63 percent vote in November 2006.
Oct 18, 2007
Superintendent Carole Smith on Wednesday announced that Zeke Smith will join Portland Public Schools on November 1 as her Chief of Staff.
Oct 10, 2007
Portland Public Schools' student count appears to be starting its comeback, with 46,269 students enrolled in all district schools and services as of October 1
Oct 8, 2007
Five Portland Public Schools middle schools converted strong performance into top grades on the 2006-07 Oregon school report cards released Monday.
Portland Schools in Crisis - a defunct blog circa 2003
The Jackson SUN (Schools Uniting Neighborhoods) Initiative aims to transform the school into a community hub where students, families, and neighbors collaborate using private, city and state resour...
SEIU Local 49 represents over 4,000 health care workers in Oregon and Southwest Washington, and over 2,000 janitors who clean commercial buildings, city, county, state and federal buildings, the PD...
The Portland Public Schools high school.
The mission of Artful Education is to bring arts education into every public school within the Portland city limits. Artful Education is a sponsored project of the Portland Public Schools Foundatio...
Jefferson High School operates within the small academy model designed to support students in meeting state and college entrance standards, and to propel all students toward their academic potentia...
The Trojans. Part of Portland Public Schools
Grant High School's Varsity girls lacrosse program.