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With Illinois’ clean energy transition underway, ComEd’s annual Career Day invites local students to explore range of future career pathways ...
Students flocked out of a Portland, Oregon middle school by the hundreds in support of two Black faculty members.
Hundreds of students at Ockley Green Middle School in North Portland walked out of class Friday, April 14 to protest their school placing two Black staffers on leave. The protest is the second in two months under a school administration that is also battling a federal Title IX complaint over alleged mistreatment of female students. Ockley Green students held signs, circling the building, chanting, “Black teachers matter!” before eventually making their way off school grounds....
A Portland Public Schools (PPS) teacher is alleging the district placed him on leave in retaliation for speaking out against the district’s plans to relocate Harriet Tubman Middle School due to the expansion of a nearby freeway. His students are calling for his return to the classroom. Bryan Chu, an 8th grade social studies teacher at Harriet Tubman, was placed on leave April 1 while the district investigates his professional behavior. A letter from the...
Nikole Hannah-Jones - author of the controversial New York Times 1619 Project - was paid $50,000 by the Oregon Education Department for two seminars.