News Veteran schools activist Marta Guembes, who last year ruffled feathers with her one-woman investigation of Portland Public Schools' services for Spanish-speaking parents, filed a fourth federal civil-rights complaint against the district on Monday. The new complaint alleges discrimination by PPS against parents of English-language learners and says the district lacks adequate translation and interpretation ...   More

News Last week's story about Portland Public Schools' sometimes inability to communicate with non-English-speaking parents generated a lot of heated reader comments. It also filled my email inbox with missives that are, shall we say, more difficult to characterize. To wit, one reader wrote: Mr./Mrs. Slovic: Have you finally run out of reasons for outrage down at WW? Because that was the stupidest ...   More