EDUCATION

Two Portland State University students are suing over unlawful retaliation related to a campus protest in May. The two students previously filed tort claims against PSU, alleging unlawful use of force. Monday’s lawsuits stem from a May 23 protest on campus in which seven people were arrested. That protest over...

Since 2004, Bank of America has offered competitive, paid intern programs in the greater Portland and Vancouver region. Nearly 100 high schoolers from the area have been selected as Student Leaders since the programs' inception, and this year, two Portland-based students were added to the total. Ky Dang, a rising senior from McDaniel High School, and recent Westview High School graduate Ammar Mukadam will participate in an eight-week summer internship...

Woodland Middle School's multi-language team helped 90 students demonstrate their English fluency last semester, with a record-breaking number passing the World-Class Instructional Design and ...

OHSU NURSES GET THE AX: As part of wide-ranging job cuts, Oregon Health & Science University this week cut a telehealth nursing unit set up during the COVID-19 pandemic and featured on the OHSU Foundation website for its service to people across the state. The university started the Connected Care Center on March 30, 2020, just as the pandemic began. It was open only to OHSU patients before opening to the public shortly afterward. Nurses worked from home, taking calls about testing locations, quarantining, and care for the disease, according to a June 2021 write-up by OHSU. Since the pandemic, the 16 nurses in the unit had been supporting the university’s clinics and triaging patient calls, according to an employee who wished to remain anonymous. OHSU is in the midst of cutting some 500 positions, including nurses, as part of a “strategic alignment” despite repeated vows from management to spare most “patient-facing” employees. “Cutting nurses is confirmation that OHSU executives will not limit their layoffs to non-patient-facing positions,” says Duncan Zevetski, a registered nurse and vice president at the Oregon Nurses Association, which represents 4,500 OHSU employees. “Their cuts will reduce Oregonians’ access to care and ultimately make it harder for more people to get the care they need when they need it.” The university has cut a total of 22 nurses in recent days, the union says. The layoffs come as OHSU pursues a merger with Legacy Health, another hospital system that is struggling with high costs for salaries and supplies. “The strategic alignment work aims to shift OHSU’s overall strategy to its core, state-mandated missions, including improving access to the complex specialty and subspecialty services that no other health system in the region can provide,” university spokeswoman Sarah Hottman said in an email. “As a result, while planned reductions in force are largely administrative roles, other programs may be impacted as well.”

For decades, the Cleveland High School Marching Band has been a regular entry in the Portland Rose Festival’s Starlight Parade. But this year, the band was invited to perform in the festival’s biggest event – the Grand Floral Parade. “Our band was the only Portland Public School representative in this year’s Grand Floral Parade,” pointed out Cleveland High School Director of Bands Gary Riler. Members of the band first learned...

A sure sign that summer is arriving in the Eastmoreland neighborhood is the annual Duniway Elementary School Parade. On Friday June 7, Portland Police Bureau Traffic Division Motorcycle officers were pleased to be once again escorting the hundreds of kids and staff members two blocks north along S.E. Reed College Place – and two blocks back to the school. “One of the reasons I’m taking the lead in pulling together...

Portland State University has been selected to join a national research group to study criminal justice reform, which the school says, could help the state and Multnomah County.

The board of directors for Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University has approved a 2025 fiscal year budget that moves forward plans to cut more than 500 positions, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. Board members approved the budget June 28 as OHSU works to address financial challenges. "The actions that...

Do we think that most children know how to ride a bike? Perhaps many of us think so, since we see very small children rolling by, just using their feet on the ground for propulsion – and we see others riding in the neighborhoods with parents. However, in Woodstock, Lewis Elementary School’s P.E. teacher – Scott DeMonte – discovered something different. “At Lewis we were having high numbers of fourth and fifth graders who were unable to ride a bike on their own.” ...

Join UNCF as they celebrate 80 years of changing the world! The UNCF Each One Teach One Luncheon is a premier fundraising event focusing on raising awareness of the need and benefits of a college education, the students UNCF serves and the contributions of historically Black colleges and universities. Hosted...

The baseball diamond in Beaverton is where Ila Borders is looking to bring along the next generation of ball players with her unique take as a left-handed coach. “I am just trying to take my experiences that I learned, good and bad, and pass those along and help the sport grow,” said Borders, a training captain with Clackamas Fire.

Despite leading for 99 percent of the game, the RBI Riverpigs had victory snatched away as the Vancouver Mavericks pulled out a 9-8 thriller in the first round of the Dylan Baker Memorial Tournament on Friday at Woodland High School. For much of the game, it was nip-and-tuck. RBI jumped...