Open School | School Reinvented | Portland Oregon

OPEN SCHOOL EAST Open School East is an innovative high school that helps students catch up, graduate, and achieve their life goals!

STEP UP Step Up is a relationship-based mentoring program that supports students through their high school journey within three Portland Public high schools!

Open School is an innovative education program for amazing kids who deserve something different than traditional school. We know that traditional education has been under-serving students of color for generations. We give them what they need to graduate and achieve their life goals: equity, advocacy, and academics.

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Keep Up With The Movement

March 18, 2021

Open School is in solidarity with the Asian American/Pacific Islander community.

We were devastated to learn of this week’s murders of Asian women in Atlanta, but unfortunately, we were not surprised. These tragic deaths come amidst a spike in racist violence and hate speech directed at members of the AAPI community. A recent report by Stop AAPI Hate examines 3,795 documented […]

March 9, 2021

Hybrid Learning a Possibility for Open School East Students

On March 5th, 2021, Governor Kate Brown Announced that all Oregon public schools will offer a form of in person learning starting April 19th. (Read more here) Open School East administration will be working hard in the next two weeks to draft a plan for Hybrid learning for all our students. We want […]

January 30, 2021

Open School welcomes our new Executive Director, Kimberlee Pierce Sheng!

Open School is excited to announce that Kimberlee Pierce Sheng will be the organization’s new Executive Director. Sheng will be the fourth person, and first African-American woman, to lead Open School in its 50-year history. A committee of Open School staff and board members selected her after a national search. […]

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