Hillsboro School Board adopts policy revisions for searches, personal communication devices
Hillsboro School Board members unanimously approved revisions to five policies on Tuesday night, including searches, students' personal communication devices and weapons in schools.
Immigration: Portland agency to expand in response to surge of unaccompanied minors at Mexico border
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which operates under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, contracts with the Portland-based nonprofit Morrison Child and Family Services to temporarily house unaccompanied immigrant children in this state.
Hillsboro School Board, administrators contemplate how to spend additional Gain Share money
Hillsboro School District leaders learned earlier this month that they will receive nearly $730,000 in additional funds next year from the tax-sharing program Gain Share.
Hillsboro School Board to revise policies on searches, personal communication devices and social media
Controversy erupted last year at Hillsboro's R.A. Brown Middle School after staff reviewed and deleted video on students' cell phones.
Farm workers at Cornelius nursery practice yoga in greenhouse-turned-studio
At Blooming Nursery in Cornelius, owner Grace Dinsdale converted her first commercial greenhouse into a yoga studio so her employees could benefit from the practice as she has done for 15 years.
Hillsboro School District teachers compare math textbooks, online materials using new rubric
Hillsboro School District leaders spent most of last week vetting high school math textbooks and online materials through an extensive new rubric that equally compares the two.
Live chat recap: Hillsboro's Diana Estrada shares boxing insights, power of discipline
The Oregonian talked to Diana Estrada on Tuesday about her amateur boxing success, her family's nonprofit neighborhood boxing team, and what it's like to fight her three brothers on a daily basis.
Hillsboro technology camp Girls Get IT ends intro week with video game, website design
Girls Get IT introduces middle and high school girls to everything science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through a series of hands-on experiments.
Live chat with Olympic boxing hopeful Diana Estrada Tuesday at noon: Team Estrada
The Oregonian will talk to Diana Estrada on Tuesday at noon about her amateur boxing success, her family's nonprofit neighborhood boxing team, and what it's like to fight her three brothers on a daily basis.
Boxer statistics, past coverage of Hillsboro family with 4 Olympic hopefuls: Team Estrada
Read The Oregonian's stories about Team Estrada for the full picture. Here's a quick profile of each boxer in the family.
Hillsboro boxing family's reach extends to neighborhood kids: Team Estrada
Lizzie Ruiz and upward of 30 neighborhood youth might be found training with the Estradas on any given day.
Efrain Estrada Jr. is 'someone to watch' for 2016 Olympics: Team Estrada
The Hillsboro High grad's finish at the USA Boxing Elite National Championships adds to a long list of accomplishments.
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