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On Nov. 6, the day after a national election that sent Donald Trump back to the White House, Elijah Graham and Owen King, who attend high schools on opposite sides of the Willamette River, were each greeted by the same Turkish proverb posted on their classroom bulletin boards: “When a clown moves into a palace, the clown does not become a king—the palace becomes a circus.” A similar mood met students across Portland that Wednesday morning. “The air was pretty intense,” says Camila Sahagun, a sophomore at Lincoln High School. Connor Jacobsen, a senior at Benson Polytechnic High School,...

Students in a Seattle English class were told that their love of reading and writing is a characteristic of “white supremacy,” in the latest Seattle Public Schools high school controversy. The lesson plan has one local father speaking out, calling it “educational malpractice.”Lincoln High School in Seattle teachings on white supremacy leads to controversy. (School photo courtesy of the school district website; quiz images provided by a parent in the school district)As part of the Black Lives Matter at School Week, World Literature and Composition students at Lincoln High School were given a handout with definitions of the “9 characteristics...

-- Back-to-back weekends of shootings have left community leaders bewildered and angry over senseless violence they say plagues neighborhoods in the southern part of the city. The recent spate of violence includes Friday's fatal shooting of Jade Saunders, a 17-year-old Lincoln High School student, and a Sunday morning gunfire that left a 20-year-old woman and 2-year-old boy hospitalized, authorities said. "I am outraged by the senseless murder of a young queen whose life was just beginning to bloom and that of a 2-year-old could not be protected from gun violence," said Pamela Johnson, the director of the Jersey City Anti-Violence...