New normal for Portland-area high schools: Huge classes, overloaded teachers, short school years, gaps in students’ days

Oregon Live – Betsy Hammond

“From Hillsboro to Lake Oswego to Clackamas, metro Portland’s high schools routinely pack 30 or more students into a class, offer so few courses that some students have part-day schedules and fall short of the state requirement that each course include 130 hours of instruction.”(more)