About NSA

NSA was founded at a community meeting at King Elementary in NE Portland School on March 9, 2005.

By the end of the month, we had turned out in force at Portland School Board meetings and helped build a new, diverse coalition of community members in opposition to the Superintendent's top-down proposals. While we were not successful in preventing the short-sighted school closures, we did help slow down the District's "runaway train" forcing changes on the Jefferson Cluster.

Since then, we have continued to "watchdog" the District by attending meetings, testifying to the School Board, issuing press releases and getting our views heard as best we can.

Through meetings, phone calls, emails, testimony, rallies, and sign making parties; at each others' homes, in the schools, and on the streets; the moms, dads, teachers, students, and elders in NSA have gotten to know each other across barriers of race, income, class, and neighborhood. We have forged bonds of friendship and solidarity and resolve, all across Portland, to work together to fight injustice and inequity in our schools.