PPS Equity

Covering the beat of Portland Public Schools, 2008-2010

From January 2008 to March 2010, PPS Equity covered issues of concern to the community of Portland Public Schools, the main school district in the city of Portland, Ore.

Many issues continue plague the district, starting with inadequate and unstable state funding. The revenue problem is significantly aggravated by a class- and race-segregated city, an entrenched elite which controls the school board for the benefit of specific neigbhorhoods, and an administration mired in its own downward spiral and easily distracted by fleeting trends in urban education peddled by corporate foundations.

We shut the site down and moved our family out of the district in frustration in Spring of 2010. As a public service, the archives of our work and discussions will be maintained indefinitely. You can read all entries in blog format, our browse by month, author or topic below.

Start here to read stories featured for getting to the heart of the matter.