Good news for people who like good news. Shortly after throwing a massive, music-themed, benefit in their honor, the LEP school (that would be the Leadership and Entrepreneurship Public Charter High School) will stay open! Today’s Portland Public Schools Board of Education meeting will include the “expected approval” to keep the charter school’s doors open, […]
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The Farm & Factory Origins of “Sustainable” School Lunch
Last Thursday, I went to the place where food is invented. Not cooked, not grown. Invented. It’s a nondescript office building called the Food Innovation Center located on the more industrial edge of the Pearl. I snagged a behind the scenes tour as part of the 4th National Farm to Cafeteria conference, which last weekend […]
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Last Chance for Sexy Essay Entries!
Don’t forget, Blogtown readers–today’s your last chance to try to win $100 by entering the Mercury‘s Sexy Essay Contest! Details are below. Remember losing your virginity in high school? Or college? Or (gulp!) junior high school? Did you have a hee-larious mix-up with a condom, a forbidden intimate encounter with a hot teacher, or an […]
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What’s Not Public in the Public Schools Discussion?
The often-scathing blog Portland Public Schools Equity has a great post today about the lack of public discussion among school board members over last night’s appointment of their newest member, the Oregonian-endorsed Martin Gonzalez. The vote wasn’t a surprise – Gonzalez was the only candidate with a lot of experience who agreed with the school […]
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Seven Cent Solution – Local Foods in Portland Schools
Portland Environmental group EcoTrust is taking a big step forward this year toward their goal of getting public schools to use local foods in their cafeteria lunches. The group just won a $295,000 grant that will reimburse Portland and Gervais district schools seven cents per lunch to acquire and serve local foods this year. Usually, […]
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Sexy Essay Contest!
The following notice is printed in the paper that’s currently hitting the streets, but there’s no reason at all to leave the denizens of Blogtown out of the loop. The short version: The Mercury‘s looking for funny, awkward, and horrifying stories of school-related sex for our upcoming Back to School issue! The long version: Remember […]