Fed up with a 5-year delay, Black leaders give Portland Public Schools a deadline on the Center for Black Student Excellence

Coalition calls for immediate action on Portland’s delayed Center for Black Student Excellence

In November 2020, Portland Public Schools asked voters to support a $1.2 billion bond to fund continued work modernizing the district’s high schools. In addition to the funds for schools, investments in technology and other upgrades, the bond set aside money to create a new facility called the Center for Black Student Excellence. “The leadership of the district is acutely aware that many Black students in Portland have not been historically well…

Fed up with a 5-year delay, Black leaders give Portland Public Schools a deadline on the Center for Black Student Excellence

Leaders of more than 35 organizations that serve Black Portlanders are calling on Portland Public Schools to publicly commit to a site for its long-delayed Center for Black Student Excellence within two months.Voters in 2020 approved $60 million in bond funding to establish such a center, envisioned as a centralized hub where Black students and their families could get help improving children’s and teen’s academic outcomes and sense of belonging.

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Image courtesy of Halline Overby. May marks the fifth anniversary of one of the largest uprisings in our nation’s history when millions of people took to the streets — following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer — to call on our nation to acknowledge and redress its history of racism. Now, a new multimedia showcase that debuted over the weekend in Los Angeles — “Black Futures Newsstand Presents: Riot to Repair Soundscape…