Portland Tribune, 3/31/06: "Empty Schools Won't Go to Waste"

Portland Tribune, 3/31/06: "Empty Schools Won't Go to Waste"

The Portland school board may vote this month to close several schools, but those schools will not be gone for good.

Although the district could earn millions of dollars from selling them, schools officials say they also can generate rental income and may be needed again in the future....

Southwest Portland parent Ruth Adkins, of the watchdog group Neighborhood Schools Alliance, also wants the process slowed down and is critical of a drastic overhaul.

“How many young families will settle in a Portland neighborhood based on having to bus or drive their kids past a mothballed neighborhood building to a distant consolidated school?” she wrote in a letter to city Commissioner Sam Adams.