At a National Alliance of Black School Educators conference in Atlanta last fall, Portland Public Schools board member Herman Greene asked a question that brought the room to a standstill. Portland was planning to spend well over $400 million apiece to build three high schools, Greene told fellow school board members and superintendents from around the country. Did that price tag raise any eyebrows? “The room went dead silent,” Greene recalled. “People thought that I was lying, that I didn’t know what I was talking about, that I was incompetent.” He wasn’t lying. Read more at the link in our bio. 📸: Courtesy Beth Conyers/Portland Public Schools #portlandpublicschools #PPS #portlandschools #education #newschools #construction #theoregonian