Thrive Foundation Blog Portland Program Saves a High School From Closing, Then Helps its Graduation Rate Soar

By Rob Waters In 2010, Jefferson High School, the only predominantly African-American high school in Portland, Oregon, was on the chopping block. The neighborhood it served had been through gang wars, drive-by shootings and gentrification. The school had been redesigned and reconstituted, broken into small schools and reunified in waves of top-down school-reform efforts. Yet [...]