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School Staffing Plans Upend King

School Staffing Plans Upend King
Apr 24, 2018, 4:23 p.m.
New Documentaries Worth Watching

New Documentaries Worth Watching
Apr 24, 2018, 4:17 p.m.
High School Principal of the Year

High School Principal of the Year
Apr 24, 2018, 4:06 p.m.
Blazers Look to Future

Blazers Look to Future
Apr 24, 2018, 4:02 p.m.
New School Model Lauded

New School Model Lauded
Apr 18, 2018, 9:53 a.m.

Latest News

King Elementary School parents are calling out the school district over plans to reduce staffing at the school and say the proposal goes against the district’s own equity goals.

School Staffing Plans Upend King

April 24, 2018 | 4:23 p.m.

Sgt. Edwin Raymond was among a group of police officers of color who put their safety and careers at risk by exposing systemic racism in the New York Police Department. The story is told in the fantastic new documentary “Crime + Punishment.”

New Documentaries Worth Watching

April 24, 2018 | 4:17 p.m.

Benson High Principal Curtis Wilson Jr. inspires students by teaching a Zumba dance class earlier this year. The school administrator was just named Oregon High School Principal of the Year.

High School Principal of the Year

April 24, 2018 | 4:06 p.m.

New Orleans’ Jrue Holiday and his Pelican teammates stop Portland in the NBA playoffs with Saturday’s 131-123 victory and a 4-0 sweep in the opening round. (AP photo)

Blazers Look to Future

April 24, 2018 | 4:02 p.m.

Arts & Entertainment

Sgt. Edwin Raymond was among a group of police officers of color who put their safety and careers at risk by exposing systemic racism in the New York Police Department. The story is told in the fantastic new documentary “Crime + Punishment.”

New Documentaries Worth Watching

April 24, 2018 | 4:17 p.m.

Kendrick Lamar has won the Pulitzer Prize for music for his album “DAMN.” which also won the Grammy for Best Rap Album this year.

Rapper First to Win Pulitzer

April 18, 2018 | 10:48 a.m.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to White Bird with two different programs on Tuesday, April 24 and Wednesday, April 25, both culminating in Ailey’s masterpiece, Revelations. The performance will take place at The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Alvin Ailey Back in Portland

April 18, 2018 | 10:43 a.m.

Norman Sylvester overcome with emotion after singing in tribute to the late Janice Scroggins and Linda Hornbuckle at the Waterfront Blues Festival in 2015. A staple of the Portland blues scene for the past 40 years, Sylvester will front a Saturday benefit concert with more than a dozen of other musicians in a push for universal healthcare.

Concert with a Cause

April 18, 2018 | 10:38 a.m.

Metro

King Elementary School parents are calling out the school district over plans to reduce staffing at the school and say the proposal goes against the district’s own equity goals.

School Staffing Plans Upend King

April 24, 2018 | 4:23 p.m.

Benson High Principal Curtis Wilson Jr. inspires students by teaching a Zumba dance class earlier this year. The school administrator was just named Oregon High School Principal of the Year.

High School Principal of the Year

April 24, 2018 | 4:06 p.m.

Yolanda Coleman, assistant principal at Martin Luther King School and Lisa Jarrett, a King Museum of Contemporary Art and Portland State University professor, raise a 50 year old poster that was used to rename the school 50 years ago.

50 Years of King

April 18, 2018 | 11:55 a.m.

Natural Grocers Opens at Alberta and MLK

April 18, 2018 | 11:31 a.m.

Law & Justice

Dr. LeRoy Haynes Jr. (left) and Dr. T. Allen Bethel of the African American Ministerial Alliance’s Coalition for Justice and Police Reform.

Shelter Shooting Draws Fire

April 18, 2018 | 12:08 p.m.

Cell phone video (left) from a bystander identified as Morgan Pickering and uploaded to Instagram captures police officers aiming their weapons at a man wielding a knife inside the City Team Ministries building in southeast Portland Saturday night. The sign “More Mental Care Not More Cops” (right) was posted by activists during a vigil Sunday night and remained in front of the shelter on Monday.

Knife wielding man killed in confrontation

April 10, 2018 | 5:36 p.m.

Portland actress Chantal DeGroat rehearses her role in “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” the pioneering theater production recounting personal accounts from people connected to the riots that broke out after the acquittal of four police officers charged with using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King. Shows for three nights only, Sunday through Tuesday, April 15-17 at 7:30 p.m. on the Alder Stage at the Artists Rep Theatre, downtown.

Voices from the Riots

April 10, 2018 | 5:26 p.m.

Free Legal Services Day

April 4, 2018 | 10:52 a.m.

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