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Support Builds for Community Transitional School
Site prepared on
NE Killingsworth
Sehool. O ur Future” to pay for
construction o f a perm anent sehool
on two acres o f vacant land in the
Cully N eighborhood at 6507 N.E.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Founda Killingsworth St.
tion has granted $300,(XM) to help the
Pre-eonstruetion work for the new
Community Transitional Sehool build 9,(XX)square-foot,one-story building
its first permanent school for Portland’s is nearly complete. Construction is
homeless children.
scheduled to begin in spring at the
The not-for-profit sehool educates 2.35-acre site.
Kindergarten through Kth-gradechil
The sehool is temporari ly housed at
dren whose families are homeless or Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church in
living in transition. It is the only pro southeast Portland, where it moved at
gram of its kind in Oregon hut has the end of July after its eviction from
-C heryl Biekle,
transitional
school
principal
been disrupted by six different loca St. Stephen's Catholic Church in the
tions since it began at the Portland Hawthorne neighborhood.
school principal and lead teacher. "We
YWCA in 1990.
"In my 16 years with the school. are often the only stable forceinthese
E arlier this year, the sc h o o l’s I've become well aware of the impact kids’ lives. Moving the sehool every
board o f directors launched a $3 of moving the school from year to year is incredibly stressful both to
mi Ilion capital campaign called "Our year,” said Cheryl Biekle, transitional students and the staff.
In my 16 years
with the school,
I ’ve become well
aware o f the
impact o f moving
the school from
year to year
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Land is prepared for construction o f the Community Transitional
School at 6507 N.E. Killingsworth St. in the Cully Neighborhood.
The transitional sehixrl’s new build
ing cam paign’s first major com m it
ment was a $300,(XX) grant from the
J.C. Kellogg Foundation o f New Jer
sey. San Francisco-based Jamba Juice
has committed $ 1(X).(XM) to build a
track and playground on the grounds
o f the new sehool.
F o r m ore in fo rm a tio n , visit
transitional sehixrl.org.
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B lack E n tre p re n e u rs o f C lark
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