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Portland teens propose energy and sustainability plans, hope to get lawmakers ... - Bangor Daily News
Bangor Daily News
... where they'll help build a home for a lower-income family and, according to a Portland Public Schools announcement, “document the untold stories of local people impacted by economic adversity and the exploitation of their natural resources.
More universities sign on to Jefferson scholarship plan - Portland Tribune
Portland Tribune
“The Jefferson Middle College program is built on a solid foundation of support from Jefferson teachers, PCC faculty, and SEI mentors and staff,” Portland Public Schools Superintendent Carole Smith said Wednesday at Jefferson. “I'm pleased that Oregon ...
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Inappropriately Touching On A Portland School Bus. - 750 KXL
750 KXL
750 KXL
A new allegation of abuse at Portland Public Schools. Police are looking into a report a seventh grader at Skyline School inappropriately touched another student during a school bus ride home. It allegedly took place just before winter break.
Police investigate inappropriate touching from Portland 7th graderKOIN Local 6
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Portland schools add students at a fast pace - Portland Tribune
Portland Tribune
By Jennifer Anderson New enrollment data from Oregon Department of Education confirms that Portland Public Schools is the state's second-fastest growing district, behind Medford's school district. The Wednesday report, which follows preliminary data ...
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Some tough decisions loom for Oregon - Daily Journal of Commerce
Daily Journal of Commerce
Daily Journal of Commerce
Portland Public Schools floated an ambitious bond measure that failed. Voters, however, approved an operating levy. The infrastructure that built Oregon's economy is the infrastructure that was predominantly built in the period from 1945 to 1975.
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KGW Steps Back On Interview with Alleged Grant High Victim's “Relative” - Willamette Week
Willamette Week
Portland Public Schools spokesman Matt Shelby says the family of one victim called Thursday complaining that the interview wasn't true and didn't involve a relative. The other family told Shelby the same thing. Shelby says KGW's news director, ...
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KGW Steps Back On Interview with Alleged Grant High Victim's “Relative” - Willamette Week
Willamette Week
Portland Public Schools spokesman Matt Shelby says the family of one victim called Thursday complaining that the interview wasn't true and didn't involve a relative. The other family told Shelby the same thing. Shelby says KGW's news director, ...
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KGW Interview with Grant High Relative Turns Out to be False - Willamette Week
Willamette Week
Portland Public Schools spokesman Matt Shelby says the family of one victim called Thursday complaining that the interview wasn't true and saying they'd never met that woman. They certainly weren't related to her. Shelby called the other family, ...
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Grant High principal says more than one victim in hazing incident - KATU
KATU
KATU
"I'm not completely up to speed on their internal bureaucratic policies, but I do know that the vice principal did reach out to that school's student resource officer on Saturday," said Portland Public Schools spokesman Matt Shelby.
Schools must fight hazing's 'code of silence'Gresham Outlook
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Hazing tradition continues in silence - Portland Tribune
Portland Tribune
Portland Public Schools does not track discipline data related explicitly to hazing, as it does for bullying and harassment. The district has an administrative directive (official policy) on student clubs: “No installation ceremonies may be conducted ...
Hakim Muhammad of U-Krew fame works with Ethos to teach African drumming to ... - OregonLive.com
OregonLive.com
OregonLive.com
Ethos asked Muhammad if he would be interested in working for them as well, and now he's on his fourth year teaching African drumming to students in Portland Public Schools. His classes are funded by a grant from the Portland Children's Levy.
Attendance study reveals link with achievement - Bend Bulletin
Bend Bulletin
Portland Public Schools was inspired by its attendance data to put more of an emphasis on attendance when it met with parents of its incoming kindergarten classes, said Allyson Yoshiwara, early childhood administrator for the district's Title 1 schools ...
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'White privilege' blinds us to changes - Portland Tribune
Portland Tribune
Portland Tribune
Portland Public Schools is taking action to challenge teachers to evaluate white privilege and the importance of race in the classroom. The initiative focuses on training faculty, staff and administrators to effect change in the culture of schools.
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Hazing tradition continues in silence - Portland Tribune
Portland Tribune
Portland Tribune
Portland Public Schools does not track discipline data related explicitly to hazing, as it does for bullying and harassment. The district has an administrative directive (official policy) on student clubs: “No installation ceremonies may be conducted ...
Hazing incident at Grant HS now sexual assault investigationKATU
Grant HS Hazing Considered Sex Crime750 KXL
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Allegations of attempted kidnapping near NE Portland school likely false - KOIN Local 6
KOIN Local 6
Matt Shelby, spokesman for Portland Public Schools, tells KOIN that a mother of one of the girls called the school to report that her daughter had not made it home. She then called back to say that her daughter had made it home safe.
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Study: A quarter of Oregon public school children falling behind because of ... - The Republic
The Republic
Portland Public Schools was inspired by its attendance data to put more of an emphasis on attendance when it met with parents of its incoming kindergarten classes, said Allyson Yoshiwara, early childhood administrator for the district's Title 1 schools ...
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Education reform: Roosevelt's rise makes case for No Child waiver - OregonLive.com
OregonLive.com
New state data show that Roosevelt produced a 14 percent gain in its four-year graduation rate last year, outpacing the overall 5 percent gain in high school graduation rates across Portland Public Schools. (Statewide graduation rates rose 1 percent.) ...
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Starting down the right path - Southwest Community Connection
Southwest Community Connection
In Portland Public Schools, this requirement will come into full effect with this year's freshman class, but current seniors are still required to complete a career-related experience before graduation this spring. Meyers said Wilson began ...
The School Beat - Southwest Community Connection
Southwest Community Connection
Students with Individual Education Plans and/or handicap-ping conditions will be served in cooperation with Portland Public Schools. Le Monde Immersion is currently securing a location but intends to operate on Portland's west side.
Sex crimes unit takes up Grant High School case - OregonLive.com
OregonLive.com
Matt Shelby, a spokesman for Portland Public Schools, said four students were suspended as a result of the incident. Three were allowed to return to school this week; the fourth remains suspended. The school immediately began an investigation and ...
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February 20, 2012 (All day)
- Thursday's forecast
Patchy morning fog. Rain ending in the morning...then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs 55 to 60. East wind 5 to 15 mph...except east wind 15 to 25 mph near the gorge. Chance of rain 80 percent. - Friday's forecast
Cloudy. Rain likely in the morning...then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs around 50. East wind 5 to 10 mph shifting to the south in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch.
- Saturday's forecast
Mostly cloudy in the morning...then partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers. Highs around 50. Light wind.
- Portland teens propose energy and sustainability plans, hope to get lawmakers ... - Bangor Daily News
- More universities sign on to Jefferson scholarship plan - Portland Tribune
- Inappropriately Touching On A Portland School Bus. - 750 KXL
- Portland schools add students at a fast pace - Portland Tribune
- Some tough decisions loom for Oregon - Daily Journal of Commerce
- KGW Steps Back On Interview with Alleged Grant High Victim's “Relative” - Willamette Week
- KGW Steps Back On Interview with Alleged Grant High Victim's “Relative” - Willamette Week
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