PORTLAND, Ore. – Franklin High School in Southeast Portland needs a new mascot and a committee is starting the rebranding process Tuesday. The Quakers, the school’s former mascot, are members ...

who graduated from Seattle’s Franklin High School in the mid 1970s, wrote: “It was really strange going to a high school in which the mascot was The Quakers, a nonviolent religious sect.

High schools and colleges across the country have dumped school mascots now deemed offensive. Largely those efforts have focused on mascots that glorify a person or image with racist ties.

A decision by the Portland school board that requires Franklin High ... say Quakers too. It's going to be a lot of money wasted." The board directed school district staff to present a new mascot ...

Teens at Franklin High School told KPTV they don’t identify with the Quakers mascot anyway. The school moved away from the mascot years ago, instead using Franklin or “F.” “Whenever we do ...

It's the decision Franklin High School students ... name of their new mascot. Give it up for the Franklin High Lightning. Franklin had to cut its old nickname – Quakers -- on a directive from ...

Franklin High's mascot, The Quaker ... As an example, Pisano noted that the cafeteria floor of the school currently says "The Quakers," meaning people thoughtlessly walk on the name of a religion ...

Community hasn’t always come easy at Franklin. The school has at times been a center of racial tension. That tension triggered the first ever sit-in in Seattle, where among the arrested was ...

Franklin High School is going ... athletic coordinator for Seattle Public Schools, said Friday. Hairston said it will take until January to determine whether the Quakers will compete in the ...