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At least 3 school board incumbents lose to well-funded newcomers in Portland suburbs Updated 10:22 PM; Today 9:14 PM Newcomers outspent incumbents heavily in this year's school board elections. In Washington County alone, challengers raised nearly three times as much as sitting board members.Oregonian file photo by Brooke Herbert, 2020 Facebook Share Incumbents faced challenges from newcomers with expansive war chests in school board races across the metro area Tuesday and partial returns show at least three sitting board members lost to well-funded opponents as of 9 p.m. Campaign finance records show incumbents in Washington County raised about $54,000, close to one-third the $142,000 their challengers did.
The election has drawn a slate of candidates opposed to 'comprehensive sexuality education.' In October 2019, the Hillsboro school board in Washington County unanimously adopted a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum. While the vote had no dissenters, the topic was anything but uncontroversial. The curriculum was approved at the conclusion of a more-than-three-hour meeting that drew hundreds of attendees. Some who addressed the board during the meeting expressed strong support for the curriculum. Others implored the school board not to support it, citing "explicit" and "inappropriate" course materials and lesson plans. With the curriculum up for review every two years, Hillsboro Online Academy student Ceph Tronco is worried the next school board will side with the critics next time.
THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES May 21-June 5, 2021 | Virtual Production Austin Playhouse presents a virtual production of Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles adapted by Producing Artistic Director Lara Toner Haddock available online May 21 – June 5, 2021. The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Christie’s first published novel and introduced the world to one of her most beloved characters, Belgian Inspector Hercule Poirot. Employing a hybrid approach to theatrical filming in the pandemic, actors will be filmed remotely and socially distance, using industry approved Covid-safety measures. Directed and adapted by Lara Toner Haddock. Lara previously adapted and directed E.M. Forster’s
Austin 360 Muffled medical masking might seem antithetical to the performance of a play by William Shakespeare, who created whole worlds with spoken words. Yet a staging of the playwright's "Twelfth Night" outdoors on the St. Edward's University campus proved that this romantic comedy loses none of its charm, clarity or cleverness, even masked. After all, ancient Greek actors wore full facial masks, some outfitted with little megaphones. Two thousand years later, Italian commedia players donned half masks that emphasized of the durability of the form's stock characters. And many other performance traditions around the world depend on the cloaked practice of masking.