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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
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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.