Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13

Save PDX Schools — Learn, Ask, Act

A Portland school-right-sizing explainer that lays out the district's budget shortfall, possible closure process, research from other cities, and ways to contact decision-makers.

Why it surfaced

This campaign turns a volatile local debate into a documented chain of facts and questions: PPS faces an approximately $50 million structural shortfall, while its broader rightsizing process could affect every school and program. It also makes a useful distinction between evidence from Chicago, Philadelphia, and other districts and what those studies can—or cannot—prove about Portland.