As Mayor Sam Adams chief education advisor, Kali Thorne Ladd is behind strategies such as the Future Connect program that offers scholarships to low-income students and the 9th Grade Counts which supports students entering high school.

Rudy Crew is officially Oregon's CEO of schools – that's Chief Education Officer, a unique position expected to "lead the transformation of" all public schools from early childhood programs through college.

Willie D. Manning was born Nov.14, 1929 to Elroy and Dera (Grissom) Manning in Columbia County. He departed this life on May 19, 2012 in Portland, Oregon.

Since Portland City Council voted to create an Education Urban Renewal Area centered on Portland State University, the controversy has intensified. Did the PDC rush to judgment?

As the Portland Public Schools prepares to close down Humboldt K-8, The Skanner News is partnering with the school's community to create an online "time capsule" to help keep that community in touch.

The Rose Festival gets into full swing this weekend with the opening of the Rose Festival CityFair.

Portland housing advocates are crossing their fingers in hopes City Commissioner Nick Fish, whose portfolio includes the Portland Housing Bureau, can fill a $700,000 city budget gap that would eliminate funding for homeownership, foreclosure prevention and other services to low-income and communities of color.

Oregon's law enforcement agencies seized and forfeited more than $1.8 million in cash and goods during 2011. The costs of seizing assets jumped by 600 percent.

The Skanner News building is getting a new, energy efficient makeover that already has reduced our energy use, and sends power back into the electricity grid.

As a response, JTF is hosting its Malcolm X Birthday Weekend Celebration at the Umoja Center on Northeast Alberta Street. The weekend's events will include the 2nd Annual Black Men Breakfast, service projects, a viewing of Spike Lee's biopic "Malcolm X," a vegan and raw food potluck and Revolutionary Poetry Night.