From this morning's Portland Tribune:

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Ron Saxton used the address of his Southeast Portland home to run for his seat on the Portland school board 10 years ago while at the same time using a downtown residential address to enroll his son at Lincoln High School in Southwest Portland.

According to the article, the Saxton's rented an apartment in downtown Portland so their son could enter Lincoln instead of his local high school - Franklin.

Although the Saxton's claim they have always been upfront about this arrangement, the article also notes they offered a very different explanation during an August interview:

Even though Saxton says he wasn’t hiding anything, he’s apparently never raised the issue during a school board meeting, stump speech or other public venue. He also failed to mention the family’s move during an Aug. 17 interview with the Tribune about education issues.

When asked how his son got into Lincoln, he replied: “Everybody who applied got in. I mean there weren’t that many people applying to the IB program. It was really rigorous and hard.”

“There was never enough room,” said Leslie Butterfield, the IB administrator for the past seven years. The IB student must meet a certain number of community service and extracurricular hours, do a college-level research project and pass exams in six subjects.

Read the full article here.

And here is the original Tribune story.