This is part one of a five-part series examining the Oregon school funding formula’s outdated method of calculating student poverty. To tell these stories, a reporter and photojournalist from The Oregonian/OregonLive followed a student, a teacher, an attendance specialist and a principal from the Reynolds School District, which educates the highest percentage of low-income students in the Portland metro area.
On a blustery, overcast morning this spring, the list no one wanted to be on landed in Reynolds Middle School Principal Christopher Greenhalgh’s inbox with a metaphorical thud.
There were 10 names on it, 10 people whom Greenhalgh now had to inform were losing their current jobs or having their hours cut as of June…