Celebrating Black Excellence event planned in Milwaukie January 27 2021
Feb. 3 program to feature North Clackamas School Board Chair Libra Forde, new City Councilor Desi Nicodemus.
Ledding Library and Milwaukie History Society have partnered on a 6:30 p.m. program set for Wednesday, Feb. 3, titled Celebrating Black Excellence.
Greg Frank Hemer of the Historical Society said organizers decided to change the title of their annual Black History Month program to Celebrating Black Excellence in an effort to tie together historical trends and increase the impact of our shared history. History should enhance all in a timeline, and calling out a designated month segregates our history, Hemer said.
Attendance and grading data show gaps widening for BIPOC students
By
Julia Silverman
12/14/2020 at 4:31pm
Teachers in the Portland metro area are giving more incompletes to their students in this pandemic school year.
As this most unusual of school years careens toward a holiday break, some early statistics are emerging about how the roughly 560,000 school-aged kids in Oregon, the vast majority of whom have not seen the indoor of a classroom since mid-March, are faring in a virtual learning world. Â it could be years until educators and policymakers get broad, comparative data to track how the pandemic, and the move to virtual learning, has academically affected kids ages 8 to 18.Â