This Week in PPS: the State of Black Oregon
Download audio, subscribe to the podcast, or listen here: “It is a civil rights violation of the worst kind in the city of Portland when based on race and zip code roughly 85% of white students have...
View ArticleGreat schools conference: sorry about small schools, let’s try merit pay
As Portland teachers approach 500 days without a contract, and as discontent bubbles to the surface over a failing experiment in K8 schools and an ill-conceived “surplus” auction, senior management of...
View ArticleThe Manifesto
I’m feeling discouraged. The district seems to be once again careening from crisis to crisis, from an unresolved teachers’ contract, to an unfinished, perhaps unfinishable K8 transition, to charter...
View ArticleWillamette Week donates “surplus” paper to Woodlawn, Boise
When staff at BESC sold (and bought for themselves) “surplus” supplies at below market prices last month, Willamette Week bid unsuccessfully on a kiln and a pallet of paper, with the intention of...
View ArticlePPS and the philanthro-capitalists
Sheila Wilcox had a problem. She was teaching eighth grade at a newly expanded elementary school, its first year with eighth grade. The building did not have adequate physical space for the middle...
View ArticleMonday update
As the school board begins to draw battle lines on the high school redesign, resistance is emerging in expected quarters. Two weeks ago, the Oregonian editorial board opined against changing the...
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Portland’s Crush
PPS Seattle School District If people have any doubts about the direction that PPS is heading, they only need to head north 175 miles. PPS and the Seattle School District have so much in common....
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Notes from the K-8 Planning Meeting 2/16/10
I attended the K-8 planning meeting on 2/16/10 at Harrison Park and took notes during the meeting. There were approximately 40 to 50 people mostly Faubion, Irvington, Jason Lee, Beverly Clearly,...
View ArticleHS Redesign resolution: a few suggestions
Here is the body of a letter to the Superintendent, School Board and Redesign Team. This version contains a few more points and questions that I wish I had thought to include in the original. My...
View ArticleThe end of the line
It is with both sadness and a sense of great relief that I tell you this will be the final post on PPS Equity. [Here's Nancy's farewell.]For two years we have documented inequities in Portland’s...
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