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Oregonian: At least 20 Portland schools likely to fall apart in an earthquake

2016-07-06 17:12:48| PortlandOnline

News story posted to oregonlive.com July 6, 2016.

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Portland Public Schools bans material that casts doubt on climate change

2016-05-27 18:45:27| PortlandOnline

Eder Campuzano in The Oregonian, May 23, 2016

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Public Schools in Portland Banned from Teaching Materials that Denies Climate Change

2016-05-25 02:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: In hopes to facilitate better climate education for the children, the Portland Public Schools board have implemented drastic measures banning any teaching materials that deny or cast a doubt on climate change. The resolution, passed last May 17, requires school district to remove textbooks and other teaching materials that suggest that climate change is not happening, or that states that human activities have nothing to with the changing climate. The unanimously approved resolution also limit...

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Air Tests at Five Portland Schools Couldn't Rule Out Elevated Arsenic, Cadmium Levels

2016-02-18 07:26:36| Waste Management - Topix.net

When hundreds of angry and anxious Portlanders showed up to a community forum at Cleveland High School last week, Portland Public Schools officials had some good news. Controversy was just beginning over whether a nearby glass factory had been pumping the neighborhood air full of the heavy metals cadmium and arsenic for years - a possibility raised by state Department of Environmental Quality monitoring last October.

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