Schools detail grant-funded jobs

Portland Press Herald update, March 20, 2008

(excerpt) Portland school officials have released a full accounting of all grant-funded positions in the district.

The school department has the equivalent of 99 full-time positions that are paid by grants this year, according to the latest 2008-09 budget proposal. That's in addition to the equivalent of 1,149 full-time jobs funded by Portland taxpayers.

The district received about $6.9 million this year in federal grants that pay for 91.5 positions. It also received about $500,000 in state and local grants that pay for 7.5 positions.