Category — Boundary Change

In case you missed it in Tuesday’s Oregonian:

By mid-October, the Portland School Board will be looking at a small list of schools that need a boundary change or other fix because their enrollment is too small to offer a full program or too big to fit in the building.

It will be the first step in a multiyear effort to close, consolidate or reshape many of the district’s elementary, middle and K-8 schools to try to make them more equal in size and offerings, Superintendent Carole Smith said.

According to PPS, seven K-8s have too few students to sustain a “robust” program.  One of those K-8s is the Creative Science School.  Several years back, the Creative Science School was moved into Clark Elementary and Clark students were pushed out.  Clark students were moved to Binnsmead.  The Binnsmead building was renamed Harrison Park.  Now the district is considering a boundary change for Harrison Park because it’s overcrowded.  Follow?

Does anyone on the PPS leadership team understand cause and effect?