Portland school forced to move due to tear gas, munitions from ICE facility [View all]
"We have been impacted mostly by chemical weapons," an administrator for the grade school said this week about the ICE facility's impact on the school
By Sean Neumann
Published on August 22, 2025 05:15PM EDT
A Portland grade school says it’s relocating due to dangerous and violent conditions a local ICE facility has caused amid its aggressive responses to protesters outside their building.
The Cottonwood School, located in Portland, Ore., is calling its relocation an “emergency move,” according to an automated response PEOPLE received from a school official’s email account.
PEOPLE reached out to school administrators for the southwest Portland public charter school following reports from local KATU, KGW8, and KPTV, which first reported the decision to relocate amid responses from ICE agents against local protesters outside its facility.
“Cottonwood is currently in the process of an emergency move,” an email message from Laura Cartwright, the interim executive director of the Cottonwood School, read Friday, explaining that it could take multiple days to respond amid the school’s relocation efforts ...
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