It started as part of a cultural lunch at Richmond Elementary School, which holds annual or twice-a-year Japanese lunches.
School level data for the Successful Schools Survey is now available.
For Lincoln High School art teacher Addy Kessler, the rewards of being a teacher can be distilled to one moment she sees in her students.
The Portland Public Schools Board of Education has declared October as the district awareness month for three health and wellness areas.
On Thursday, students throughout Portland Public Schools practiced what to do in an earthquake as part of the Great Shakeout.
The Wilson High School volleyball team is having a banner season in the Portland Interscholastic League.
Students collected new socks, undergarments and hygiene items for Northwest Children’s Outreach
Chris Long named to head Willamette Connections Academy, new online public school serving students in grades K-12
— Oregon Connections Academy celebrates start of 15th school year with high marks on annual parent survey —
--Active volunteer, athlete, and traveler; Madi Beck is graduating from Oregon Connections Academy June 8th --
The Portland school board voted to revoke the charter from Trillium Charter School, citing falling scores and entrollment.
FLO, a group hired by Portland Public Schools to develop a plan to redraw school boundaries, met publicly with the board for the first time.
"Students are struggling with significant challenges, such as bullying and harassment," School Safety Task Force Co-Chair Dave Novotney says
Portland Public Schools has backed off a plan to pay the Police Bureau around $1 million a year to put nine officers in schools.
While Oregon high school graduation rates rose across the board, there are still gaps between white students and students of color.
Disability Rights Oregon filed a class action suit against the state saying Oregon is shortchanging students with disabilities on education.
Portland Public Schools approved a contract to hire a company to develop new boundaries with an eye toward redrawing them for 2020-21.
OSU continues to expand its Portland footprint, having an open house to celebrate their new space in the old Meier & Frank building downtown
The seven-story, 175,000 square foot building is a partnership between PSU and OHSU along with the city o Portland, with all three using it.
"PPS has faced organizational risks, challenges, and performances issues," an audit by the state found. Portland Public School agrees.
The Portland school board voted Tuesday night to set aside $1.2 million to pay to have nine police officers in schools five days a week.
Police arrested a man with a gun as he ran towards Glenhaven Park. He'd been spotted near Madison High School, which sent it into lockdown.
Janet Do grew up in Portland, graduated from Benson, went on to teach at Rigler. Now, she's being honored for her work at Whitman Elementary
Portland Public Schools voted in May that Franklin has to get rid of the Quaker as part of the school's branding. That process is underway.
With Oregon's 77 percent four-year high school graduation rate the third-lowest in the national, a panel has been studying ways to fix it.
The district calls the plan Recovery, Education, and Action for Healthy Living Continuum of Care and will provide a range of options.
PSU is holding nine listening sessions over the next three days as part of their safety review in the wake of the Jason Washington killing.
After first saying that the data wouldn't be released until after the election, Oregon reversed course, releasing the school report cards.
Mónica Mayer will speak at the 7th annual Portland Women in Art Lecture Series at Portland State University Nov. 7.
Leon McKenzie III harassed two minor female students last year and this, according to an indictment that states he was physical with them.
Portland Community College was given the green light to purchase 17 acres to build a new training center in Columbia County.
Portland Public Schools will reportedly receive more than $1.56 million annually for the next 7 years as part of the federal grant award.
The money raised at the foundation's 8th annual Celebration Dinner & Auction will support the foundation's athletic and academic programs.
Police say that Antoinette Riley is charged with possession of a weapon in a public building after her gun went off at Jason Lee Elementary.
The school also announced on Thursday that one of the officers who shot Jason Washington has left PSU and Portland for another job.
The school is spending $3 million to create centers studying homelessness and ways that technology can help improve life in cities.
The school was placed on lockdown after a young student saw a man running into the woods. The police investigated and determined all's well
The district last week announced they were ending a la carte sales of milk because of concerns over student debt.
The building, which had housed parts of two schools, is now a full elementary school with a growing Vietnamese language immersion program.
Purdy, a division of Sherwin-Williams that has a plant in North Portland, presented Sitton Elementary with a $20,000 grant to help them.