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Greene, Hollands, Brim-Edwards glide to victory in Portland school board races Updated 8:08 PM; Facebook Share The Portland school board will seat two new members in July and, for the first time in its history, concurrently count three Black members among its ranks. Herman Greene won the four-way Zone 4 race Tuesday, claiming 73% of the vote according to partial returns as of 8 p.m. In Zone 5, Gary Hollands held 83%. Julia Brim-Edwards, the lone incumbent seeking reelection, won a second conse...

Portland Public, Portland Community College board races see landslide wins Herman Greene, Julia Brim-Edwards and Gary Hollands won with landslide leads for the Portland Public Schools Board of Education. In Zone 4, Greene led with 73%. Hollands had 84% in Zone 5 and Brim-Edwards pulled in 81% by the time votes were tallied Wednesday morning. Greene and Hollands will be newcomers to the PPS board. Brim-Edwards is the only incumbent who ran for re-election to her seat. "I want to thank Portla...

May 18 special election includes Portland School Board seats, Oregon Historical Society levy Today 5:15 AM A child helps place an adults ballot in a drop box at Multnomah County Elections headquarters. LC- Mark Graves Facebook Share By The Oregonian/OregonLive This year’s May election is a special election, meaning voters are seeing only local candidates -- city councils, school boards, fire districts and the like -- and local ballot measures. It’s too late to mail your ballot to have it...

Portland school board candidates have collected $100,000. The single largest donor? The teachers union Today 8:35 AM Facebook Share Portland school board candidates have brought in nearly $100,000 in donations and more than one quarter of that cash has so far come from one source: the union representing the district’s educators. With a week to go until Election Day, the Portland Association of Teachers has donated $13,000 each to the campaigns of Herman Greene and Gary Hollands, both of whom...

Jaime Cale’s full response to The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Portland school board candidate questionnaire Today 7:05 AM Jaime Cale is running for the Zone 4 seat on the Portland school board, which represents the districts North sextant neighborhoods.Photo courtesy Jaime Cale Facebook Share Jaime Cale, long active in Portland Public Schools matters as a parent, Northeast Portland resident and school district employee, is running as a serious write-in candidate for a seat on the school board. ...

As hybrid instruction continues across the state, distance learning continues. As Oregon schools open their doors, students are heading back to school in droves for hybrid instruction — with some time spent at school, in-person, and the rest of the time continuing to learn at home. But thousands of Oregon students are staying home and continuing to learn online, in comprehensive distance learning. How many exactly, is hard to say. The Oregon Department of Education does not keep track of how ...