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.
Harriet Tubman Middle School students will not be relocated to the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School building as many had feared, Portland Public Schools (PPS) announced Friday. PPS officials are still deciding where Harriet Tubman students will move in 2027. Harriet Tubman Middle School, which sits next to the Interstate 5 corridor in the Rose Quarter, has long been polluted by the freeway. According to a Portland State University study, the air quality next.
Portland Public School (PPS) representatives reiterated their skepticism of the Interstate 5 expansion project, as well as their distrust of the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), in an intergovernmental meeting Thursday evening. ODOT representatives presented the latest updates of the Rose Quarter Project—ODOT’s nearly $800 million plan to add two new lanes to a 1.7 mile stretch of I-5 in Northeast Portland to reduce congestion and fender benders—to the PPS Board of Education members, giving.