News The busy state of Portland Public Schools' high-school redesign and teacher contract negotiations bring this omnibus update, in advance of tonight's School Board meeting: • Parents in the Grant High School cluster met last week to organize against Grant's possible closure as a neighborhood school. Between 200-300 people attended the meeting, which included entertainment from Grant's Royal ...   More

News When Grant High School's Ndamukong Suh spurned Oregon State University and the University of Oregon to play football at the University of Nebraska, there was much gnashing of teeth by local sports fans about a great player who got away. Suh's standout senior season last year heightened the loss, as he's now one of the top prospects heading into this week's NFL draft. And now comes one more ...   More

News Grant High School's prom Friday night at the Tiffany Center featured one fewer guest than expected. After announcing this winter that he wanted breathalyzer tests at the prom, Principal Joe Malone didn't get what he wanted. ACLU of Oregon, prompted by news of Malone's proposal, raised numerous questions about the constitutionality of searching students going to the prom. Among those questions: ...   More

News Donning T-shirts advertising godhatesamerica.com and holding their offensive signs, about 20 members of the Westboro Baptist Church spewed anti-gay blather outside Grant High School in northeast Portland this morning. About a couple hundred counter-demonstrators showed up in what's become the usual drill for the Topeka-based outfit founded by Fred Phelps to protest against homosexuals, or as ...   More

News In the upside-down world of Portland Public Schools where last-minute budget maneuvers have delayed staffing efforts, a handful of teachers are just now learning that they've been laid off. At Grant High School, the news hit the choral director, Katy Wagner-West, on Friday, less than four weeks before the start of school. And, just like the emergence of a Facebook group to save PE when it was ...   More