Portland Public Schools may refer to:
- Portland Public Schools (Maine), in Portland, Maine, U.S.
- Portland Public Schools (Oregon), in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Famous quotes containing the words portland, public and/or schools:
“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.”
—George F. Will (b. 1934)
“The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)