SunshinePPS is a community-driven, policy-oriented website serving the families and community members of the public schools of Portland, Oregon. Our initial focus is on Portland Public Schools (PPS), the largest school district in Portland (and Oregon), but this project will eventually cover all of Portland's public schools. SunshinePPS is a project of the Center for Transparent Analysis and Policy, a non-profit organization dedicated to transparency in governance and public policy.

SunshinePPS comprises two interconnected services, :Wiki and :Talk. SunshinePPS:Wiki is an online library collecting the community's institutional knowledge — the documents, analyses, wisdom, and histories that are now scattered in fragments around the community — into a central location so that it can be more easily discovered, more broadly disseminated, and less likely forgotten. SunshinePPS:Talk is a central, open discussion forum where community members can keep each other aware of issues and events, and help each other to navigate challenges and to understand the system's successes and failings. Until now, such discussions have been siloed within a multitude of online and offline forums that are specific to individual schools or neighborhoods or programs.

By helping the community to communicate and to remember, SunshinePPS will help us become more effective advocates for better public education in Portland.