Dear PPS Families and Community,

If you plan to visit a Portland Public Schools campus, you need to be aware of COVID-19 health and safety measures that will go into effect starting Monday, October 18.

PPS wants to hear from you to weigh the impacts of requiring all students 12 years and older to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Next week we will host a series of virtual listening sessions for students and families. They will be conducted via Zoom.  

Guadalupe Guerrero has been named the recipient of the national Superintendent of the Year Award by the Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS).

Superintendent Guerrero, who this month is celebrating his four-year anniversary in Portland Public Schools, will be honored Saturday in Washington D.C. at the ALAS 18th Annual National Gala Awards and Dinner.

Dr. Alfonso Garcia Arriola, a teacher at ACCESS Academy, will help explore and map the ocean floor as part of a fellowship with the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET). He earned one of 12 spots from a competitive pool of educators and communicators who applied.

Dear Families and Students,

Portland Public Schools is weighing the impacts of requiring all students 12 years and older to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Portland Public Schools is one of eight U.S. school districts chosen to receive an $8.2 million, five-year grant from the Wallace Foundation to build an equity-centered pipeline for hiring and training principals. The grant will support the district in further accelerating progress on its racial equity and social justice commitments to students and the larger PPS community.

As Portland Public Schools accelerates to become a tech enabled school district, it is announcing an expanded partnership with Verizon Innovative Learning Schools that will provide more than 2,500 students at George, Kellogg, and Lane Middle Schools and Roosevelt High School with tech devices. These schools join other schools that received more than 1,000 devices last year.