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It’s day one of the first-ever Portland Public Schools (PPS) teacher strike. After spending the better part of a year in stalled contract negotiations with PPS management, the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT) union gave the district a 10-day notice to strike on October 20. The union and district continued bargaining until October 31, but couldn’t reach an agreement on time. Now, all of PAT’s 3,700 members— which includes teachers, school counselors, psychologists, coaches, and...

Students flocked out of a Portland, Oregon middle school by the hundreds in support of two Black faculty members.

Hundreds of students staged a walkout at Ockley Green Middle School in Portland, Oregon after two Black educators were placed on administrative leave.

Hundreds of students staged a walkout at Ockley Green Middle School in Portland, Oregon after two Black educators were placed on administrative leave.

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....