Students take worries about budget cuts to the streets Jennifer Lewis of Madison High School has been doggedly calling and e-mailing every school district in Oregon. The Oregonian 1/31/02

Boycott won’t help our schools By Promise King from The Portland Tribue 1/29/02

Oregon pins glowing grades on schools State educators rated nearly every public school in Oregon as doing a satisfactory or better job in teaching schoolchildren, the best showing ever under Oregon's school report card program. From The Oregonian 1/25/02

School plan would shut building Portland school district officials want to close the 88-year-old building housing Vocational Village alternative high school and move the program to another location. Oregonian 1/16/02

Crisis team is back - with new strategy. Portland's Education Crisis Team is rekindling demands that educators take immediate action to boost reading and math achievement among minority and low-income students. Oregonian 1/16/02

Activists press for changes in education elections, scrapping the citywide vote and letting each zone pick its representative It's an assignment the Portland School Board gets once each decade: Redraw the lines that determine where candidates must live to be eligible for citywide school board elections. The Oregonian 1/14/02

Bunn attacks state ethics allegations Stan Bunn, state superintendent of public instruction, told the state ethics commission Friday that its case against him was seriously flawed and should be dismissed. The Oregonian 1/12/02

Schools prepare for a big squeeze
And local school districts that won’t be giving Portland’s children the education they deserve. Portland Tribune 1/11/02