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.
Oregon graduation rate climbs to 83%, a new high, but schools may have lowered the bar for a diploma
Updated Jan 21, 2021;
Posted Jan 21, 2021
The biggest improvements in Oregon graduation rates occurred among Black and Latino students and students with disabilities. About 76% of Black students graduated within four years statewide and nearly 80% of Latinos did so.Photo courtesy Portland Public Schools
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The biggest improvements occurred among Black and Latino students and students with disabilities.
About 76% of Black students graduated within four years statewide and nearly 80% of Latinos did so. Approximately 60% of students with disabilities graduated on time.
But the unprecedented upheaval that Oregon schools experienced last spring, as the pandemic closed them with little warning and educators were ordered to abandon normal grading practices, calls into question whether the latest uptick was primarily the result of schools improving their performance or re
In 2017, the Kinney family stopped paying their mortgage on their North Mississippi home.
The family blamed their decision on confusing paperwork. But others have noted that the members of the family have adopted some of the trademark tactics of the Moorish sovereign citizen movement, which often refuses to acknowledge laws or government authority, and which sometimes clashes with banks and landlords, tying up the courts to make debts go away.
In 2018, the bank foreclosed on the Kinneys. Two brothers, Roman and Edward Ozeruga, bought the house at an auction.
In 2020, after the sheriff s office attempted to evict the family in September, William Kinney III, who goes by William Nietzche, called for an Occupy Wall Street -style encampment.
Portland leaders, acknowledging racist anti-Black policies, seek to right historic wrongs
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
North Williams Avenue and Russell Street (pictured) was once the commercial center for Black residents in Portland. (File photo)
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Portland officials are considering pumping millions of dollars into affordable housing and economic redevelopment that could benefit families displaced from Portland’s historic Black neighborhoods.
A wide array of Black community leaders crafted the proposed $67 million initiative, which would build 40 to 50 new single-family homes to own and at least 100 apartments to rent.
People whose families were pushed out of the historic North and Northeast Portland Albina neighborhood would have first rights to live there.