PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The ongoing clashes between federal agents and protesters outside the ICE building in Portland’s South Waterfront forced a nearby school to find a new location with the school year approaching.

Inside the former Bridges Middle School building, teachers and staff for the Cottonwood School are busy unpacking boxes getting their classrooms ready for students.

“Parent reaction has been supportive they want a safe place for their students to learn,” interim executive director Laura Cartwright said.

Cartwright is hopeful their new school building on SW 1st, will be safer than their last one—which was right next door to the ICE building on South McAdam Ave.

“On our very last day at school, we started having activity at the ICE building with protesters and we started not

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