Elementary students in the rural Oregon Trail district have been attending class in-person since mid-February. That's nearly a month earlier than some districts serving the Portland area's most diverse families. The Oregonian
Editor's Note
This is the first of two parts looking at how much in-person instruction students receive in the largest Portland-area districts. This entry focuses on elementary schools. Next up? Middle and high schools.
As Portland-area elementary schools reopen, students face glaring disparities in the amount of time they get face-to-face with teachers and classmates — differences that are strongly linked to race and class.
That is the stark conclusion of an analysis by The Oregonian/OregonLive that tracked the number of hours of in-person teaching time elementary students have gotten and are scheduled to be offered by school year’s end in the area’s 18 largest districts.
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