Aslan Newson is part of the high school s Black Student Union. As a Black woman, having the place that I go to school every single day … having a place that I know represents me as a Black woman, means the world to me, Newson told the school board. When you re going to a school of someone who was named after a slave owner or KKK member, or a white supremacist, that takes a toll on your entire educational career and it s not fair. We are very fortunate to be able to have this opportunity to rename our school, but there are many other schools in our PPS district that need renaming as well.
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2020 in review: The 8 Oregon education stories that defined the year
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
Djuna Mains, 7 and Jada Lampton, 7 hug at a kid-centered gathering and march for Black lives at Sunnyside School Park in Portland on August 25, 2020.Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian
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Think of any major event that shook the state in 2020 and its impacts on education were immense.
Protests against systemic racism and police brutality led students to organize demonstrations, sometimes in the face of intense pushback from their own communities. And voters weighed in on education measures across the state, from construction bonds to funding for teachers.