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Page 2 August 29, 2018 McCoy Academy Class of 2018 graduates with their teachers. Pictured from left are Christian Clark, Maitryee Desai, Asianique Glenn, Katie Carpenter and Elias Lyons.” McCoy Academy’s New Home PCC partnership brings new opportunities by d ana l ynn b arber t he P ortland o bserver One year after a change in loca- tion, McCoy Academy is continu- ing to thrive. The alternative high school for underserved and disenfran- chised youth, originally located on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, lost their lease to The USPS 959 680 4747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 CALL 503-288-0033 • FAX 503-288-0015 P ublisher : e ditor : Mark Washington, Sr. Michael Leighton A dvertising M AnAger : Office Manager/Classifieds: PO QR code C reAtive d ireCtor : r ePorter /W eb e ditor : Leonard Latin Lucinda Baldwin Paul Neufeldt The Portland Observer welcomes freelance submissions. Man- uscripts and photographs should be clearly labeled and will be returned if accompanied by a self addressed envelope. All creat- ed design display ads become the sole property of the newspa- per and cannot be used in other publications or personal usage without the written consent of the general manager, unless the client has purchased the composition of such ad. © 2008 THE PORTLAND OBSERVER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, RE- PRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT PER- MISSION IS PROHIBITED. The Portland Observer--Oregon’s Oldest Multicultural Publication--is a member of the National Newspaper Association--Founded in 1885, and The National Advertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc, New York, NY, and The West Coast Black Pub- lishers Association. Danny Peterson P ubliC r elAtions : Mark Washington Jr. o ffiCe A ssistAnt /s Ales : Shawntell Washington news@portlandobserver.com • ads@portlandobserver.comn • subscription@portlandobserver.com Postmaster: Send address changes to Portland Observer , PO Box 3137 , Portland, OR 97208 C ontinued on P age 4 in Week Review Portland Hip Hop Day Mobile Park Zones Change Portland’s fourth annual Hip-Hop day brought the grooves to City Hall Sunday with performances from 30 local hip-hop artists, in- cluding Cool Nutz, Lifesavs, Li- bretoo, Mic Crenshaw, Mic Capes, Rasheed Jamaal, and many others. The festival, which was original- ly slated for October, was moved in honor of its late founder, Idris “StarChile” O’Ferrall’s birthday. Portland City Council unanimous- ly voted to create a new land use zone last week, making it more difficult to redevelop the city’s 56 mobile home parks in an ef- fort to keep housing low-cost for the 3,000 households living in the parks. The ordinance will help residents who faced displacement due to redevelopment of their parks and offer park owners the chance to transfer unused devel- opment rights elsewhere. Safety Campaign for Schools Established 1970 a building that was sold to make way for condominiums in 2017. After nearly being forced to shut down, they fortunately found a new location with longtime part- ner Portland Community College Traffic safety in school zones around the city was made high- ly visible this week by Portland police. Chief Danielle Outlaw kicked off a “Back to School” safety campaign at Vernon Ele- mentary School in northeast Port- land Monday morning. School resource officers, traffic officers, and precinct officers were among those dispatched. Teachers Demand Higher Pay Thousands of teachers across Washington State are negotiating for more pay and several school districts are under strike threats even as schools are poised to be- gin this week. The demands fol- low a decision by the Washington Supreme Court last June, called the McCleary Decision, which sets aside $2 billion for teachers’ Nurses Protest for Patient Care salaries, the dispersal of which is Kaiser nurses and health profes- determined in each school district. sionals picketed in front of the Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Cen- McCain Dies of Brain Cancer ter in Clackamas Friday in a call Arizona Republican Senator and for needed staffing improvements two-time presidential candidate and better patient care. It was the John McCain died in his home culmination of a week of pub- Saturday after a more than year- lic demonstrations representing long battle with a malignant brain over 1,000 nurses, social workers, tumor, at 81. The conservative mental health therapists who are maverick politician, Vietnam War calling for things like shorter wait veteran and former prisoner of times for patients at Kaiser clinics war warned America of the dan- gers of tribal politics. in Oregon and Washington.