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Portland Public Schools planning for graduation and summer programming
The superintendent announced high school graduation will be held at Providence Park thanks to a partnership with the Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns. Author: Christine Pitawanich Updated: 7:52 PM PDT April 28, 2021
Now that students who chose to do hybrid learning are physically back in the classroom, the focus is shifting to graduation and summer.
First let’s talk about graduation. Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero announced high school graduation will be held at Providence Park thanks to a partnership with the Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns.
After graduation, the district also has plans to offer extensive and free summer programming called Create, Learn & Play after an especially tough year for students.
Portland Public Schools reaches 84% on-time graduation rate, sees slight decline for some student groups
Updated Jan 21, 2021;
Posted Jan 21, 2021
The state s largest district saw an uptick of 3 percentage points in its overall graduation rates from 2019 to 2020.Photo courtesy Portland Public Schools
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Portland Public Schools improved its graduation rate by 3 percentage points in 2020, according to figures made public Thursday by the Oregon Department of Education.
Nearly 84% of the district’s seniors graduated within four years. Statewide, that figure was about 83%, despite higher child poverty rates outside the state’s largest district.
Portland’s Black and Latino students posted the highest gains, with four-year rates growing to 77% each.
The COVID-19 pandemic appears to be widening achievement gaps for Portland s students of color.
Data shows that in Portland Public Schools, students of color are attending school less often and failing classes at two and three times the rate of their white peers.
For example, roughly 40% of Black and Latino high school students in PPS were receiving at least one non-passing grade during the first quarter of the 2020-21 school year, according to data provided by the school district.
Comparatively, nearly 15.5% of the district s white high school students were failing a class. The numbers were even higher 53% for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students.
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.