Tag Archives: Courageous Conversations

No Equity in ‘Restorative Justice’

A school board that is scared of its teachers and students is a school board that needs to grow a spine. It says something about the Portland School Board that only Steve Buel remained when 400 students, teachers and their supporters interrupted a meeting to protest contract negotiations. (Andrew Davidson, the student representative to the […]

Craven conversations on race

It’s too bad Willamette Week’s cover story on the expulsion rates of black students in Portland didn’t run a week earlier, when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was in town. What would he have said about Kwame Briggs, whose 12-year-old son has been suspended more times than the dad can remember, and who blames his […]