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The organization delivers CSAs to Black and Brown Portlanders, provides mortgage and rent relief grants to BIPOC Portlanders, and hosts a weekly pantry event

Paladin Pie, which began as a backyard pop-up in summer 2020, is scheduled to open in March.

A new Oregon law that suspends a requirement for a basic-skills test in math, reading and writing to graduate from high school is being praised by advocates as a way to rethink education standards and sharply criticized by others as a misguided effort that will hurt children's learning in the long run.

Candidates queue up for board seats at Portland Public Schools School board hopefuls campaign largely on districts shortcomings and past failures This years Portland Public Schools Board election wouldve been like any other if not for Zone 4, which represents North Portland. Rita Moore, the current director, is not running for re-election this May. At one point, the Zone 4 race had seven candidates on record. Four people have since dropped out of the race, leaving Margo Logan, Brookl...

Originally published on March 12, 2021 3:17 pm Rashelle Chase — an early childhood educator, mother and a co-founder of the advocacy group Mxm Bloc — said Friday on Think Out Loud that it would make sense for students to just return to the classroom in the fall. “As challenging as [distance learning] has been for working families, juggling child care and all of these sorts of things, we’ve been doing it for a year and we’ve gotten things worked out — imperfect though that may be,�...