McMinnville Public Library provides not only books, but basic amenities creating a space for respite Philip Elliott used to be a resident manager for a nonprofit shelter provider. That was before the organization laid him off in 2020, and he became unshel ...
3 Jul 2024 - Tom Henderson
A legal loophole allows ex-cops with lifetime bans from law enforcement to search, cite and arrest people on and around university campuses A legal loophole allows former law enforcement officers with a lifetime ban from Oregon’s Department of Public Safe ...
26 Jun 2024 - Sam Becker
Portland Public Schools workers, represented by the Portland Association of Teachers went on strike Nov. 1 after several rounds of mediation sessions for the union’s next three-year contract Critics say Portland educators are harming students by striking ...
8 Nov 2023 - Aurora Biggers
While all but one book returned to some libraries after outcry, advocates, students unhappy with lesser acts of censorship Canby middle school students can no longer access “Out of Darkness,” a novel by Ashley Hope Pérez, at school. The novel exploring th ...
1 Nov 2023 - Ellen Clarke
The school mismanaged funds, made inappropriate purchases, report finds Chemawa Indian School, Oregon’s only off-reservation boarding school, mismanaged hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal and donated funds, a federal audit released July 17 found. ...
2 Aug 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
Workers say the district’s denial is harmful and negligent Portland Public School custodians are seeking arbitration against the district after denying workers’ disaster pay request for working during the historic snowstorm in February. Clint Devia is one ...
7 Jun 2023 - Aurora Biggers
McKinney-Vento provisions offer consistency, security to over 18,000 homeless students in the state For many children experiencing homelessness, school is where they find a safe community and predictable routine. A key piece of legislation — the McKinney- ...
1 Mar 2023 - Ellen Clarke
Students and staff at school for homeless students continue uphill trek to normalcy following the end of pandemic restrictions “ When I was in kindergarten, I did not know what a book was,” a quiet fifth-grade student in Cheryl Bickle’s class recently wro ...
25 Jan 2023 - Ellen Clarke
In Oregon and across Turtle Island, colonizing powers rewrite Indigenous history, sanitizing the atrocities of genocide and erasing enduring Indigenous presence and joy The massive lake known in English as Crater Lake attracts visitors from all over the w ...
9 Aug 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Even as schools shut their doors during the pandemic, Portland youths have continued their push for social justice When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, then-14-year-old Violeta Mata was nervous about the future of the country. While she’d alwa ...
7 Apr 2021 - Emma Nathanson