Pamplin Media Group June 02 2021
Pamplin Media Group and its partners examine the impacts that COVID-19 had on schools, and we sought solutions.
For the past several months, reporters with Pamplin Media Group has been examining K-12 public education in Oregon, specifically the gap between how well students of color are doing during the pandemic compared to their white classmates.
With exceptions, the gap between those services the division based on race, as well as economic factors grew worse during the months of distance learning forced by COVID-19.
Our new series, The Long Division, examines how the pandemic has impacted an educational system that was already struggling to help many families across the state.
Retired Clackamas Fire chief hired in Hillsboro
Fred Charlton takes city s division training position, which is currently subject of complaint
Fred Charlton, who was the chief of the Clackamas Fire District until his May 1 retirement, is Hillsboro Fire s new division chief of training.
Charlton s new position in Hillsboro is one subject of a retaliation and discrimination complaint against the city and two other top Hillsboro Fire officials by two current employees, who had applied for the role but weren t hired, according to the complaint.
Clackamas Fire s leadership was criticized for its handling of the Riverside Fire last September, which burned nearly 150,000 acres in the Clackamas River basin and came within a half-mile of Estacada s commercial core.