/PRNewswire/ OnPoint Community Credit Union has announced the three winners of the 2021 OnPoint Prize for Excellence in Education Educator of the Year.
OnPoint Community Credit Union will pay first-grade teacher Lionel Clegg's mortgage for a year. Woodlawn Elementary in Northeast Portland will also receive $2500
Budget cuts and bad blood: What happened to a program to recruit teachers of color in Oregon
More than 80 Portland Teachers Program alumni and the former director said their program is over. But Portland State University officials said it never ended. Author: Cristin Severance (KGW) Updated: 3:21 PM PST February 10, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. The Portland Teachers Program (PTP) was one of the longest-running programs to recruit teachers of color in Oregon.
PTP started in the 1980s after calls from the Black community to get more educators of color in Portland Public Schools classrooms.
Longtime community activist Ron Herndon remembers the fight for equality within the education system.
NBC s TODAY show is highlighting two educators after seeing KGW s year-long series, Inside Woodlawn. Author: Cristin Severance (KGW) Updated: 4:02 PM PST January 17, 2021
PORTLAND, Oregon The NBC TODAY show is highlighting two Woodlawn elementary school teachers Monday at 8 a.m.
NBC saw KGW’s year-long series, Inside Woodlawn, and wanted to highlight the educators in a story of their own. TODAY show co-anchor Craig Melvin talked to first-grade teachers Lionel Clegg and Anthony Lowery about the sheer lack of black male teachers across the country.
“There are roughly 4 million first graders in the United States of America and around 2%, have a guy that looks like me at the front of that classroom. And we know that representation matters, for a host of reasons,” said Melvin.