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Four academies to be formed in the high school cluster

Students in the Jefferson High School cluster may not recognize some of the schools they attend next fall as the Portland School District embarks on a massive three-year plan to revamp the cluster's nine schools.
In a meeting punctuated by shouting and earnest testimony, the Portland School Board on Monday decided to create four academies in the cluster — including two single-sex academies — to eventually eliminate Harriet Tubman as a middle school and to redesign seven elementary schools as pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.


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An arbitrator has lifted the suspension of a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black…


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Let me see if I understand.  The junior senator from New York, Hillary Clinton, whom many…


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