CAREERS Special Edition
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August 15, 2018
Parents Want
Counselors Not Cops
Black parent advocates vying
for fair treatment in public schools
are addressing the rise of police
officers in schools and its negative
impact on students of color, as
well as other equity issues in the
school system.
Parent activist Sheila Warren
of the Portland Parent Union, in
collaboration with the Dignity
in Schools campaign, invites the
public to join them for a “Coun-
selors not Cops” march on Friday,
Aug. 17 at 6 p.m. starting at Al-
berta Park in northeast Portland.
The group will then walk to King
School a few blocks away for a
news conference and rally.
The following day, on Saturday
starting at 9 a.m., the parents will
facilitate a day-long “Trust Cir-
cle” at Concordia University in
northeast Portland with the goal
of advancing equity and justice for
Portland-area parents, students and
teachers. This free and open to the
public event will take place at Con-
cordia’s Hagen Campus Center.
Warren, a long time Afri-
The
Week
in
Review
Employee Hijacks Plane
A 29-year-old Horizon Air sui-
cidal employee hijacked a 76-seat
plane from the maintenance area
at Seattle-Tacoma International
Airport Friday night and some-
how managed to take off. Richard
Russell remained in contact with
an air traffic controller up until he
crashed in a fiery ball near Ketron
Island. No one else was on the
plane and no one else was killed.
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Street racers shut down the Fre-
mont Bridge on Sunday night for
the second time in three years.
Drivers were stuck waiting until
all the cars cleared the lower deck
of the bridge before they could get
home. Street racers also blocked
the road near North Marine Drive
and Portland Road. Police want to
find anyone who was involved.
Aretha Franklin Gravely Ill
Aretha Frank-
lin, 76, who is
battling cancer,
is in hospice
care surround-
ed by friends
and family at
her home in
Detroit, Tim Franklin, 60, the
nephew of the singer revealed
Monday. ‘Aretha’s a strong wom-
an of faith,’ Franklin said. ‘We’re
all praying for her during her time
of illness. We are of the belief that
Sheila Warren
can-American activist who start-
ed the Portland Parent Union in
2009, told the Portland Observer
that the rise of cops in schools has
lead to an increase in referrals to
the juvenile justice system.
“They not trained for children;
they’re trained to be a cop. And
sometimes they come in and make
it much worse because they want
to arrest [them],” Warren said.
More police officers in schools
nationally has resulted in dispro-
portionately high school-based ar-
rests for black boys, according to
a 2012 report from the Bureau of
Justice Statistics.
she’ll pull through, and her spirits
are that of such.’
Governor on Spiritual Self
Yoga and meditation suit Gov.
Kate Brown just fine, she told
reporters Thursday when asked
if she follows a certain faith. ‘I
believe very much that each of
us is a spiritual being, and that’s
how I see the world.” She added
that people should treat human
beings with respect. The remarks
followed criticism by conserva-
tive evangelist Franklin Graham
that the governor needed to be a
Christian.
Omarosa says Trump a Racist
Donald Trump is
a racist who has
used the N-word
repeatedly, Oma-
rosa Manigault
Newman,
the
once prominent
African Ameri-
can in the White House, claims in
a new searing memoir. The future
president was caught on mic utter-
ing the racial slur “multiple times”
during the making of his reality
TV show The Apprentice and there
is a tape to prove it, according to
Newman, citing three unnamed
sources. In response,Trump called
her a lowlife and a dog.
Lloyd Center Music Venue
Live Nation, the largest live enter-
tainment company in the world,
announced last week that they
have signed a long-term lease
with the Lloyd Center mall to site
a venue with a bar, lounge and
dining options on the third floor of
the former Nordstrom store.