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Category Archives: On Community
How low do we go? Ballot Measure 5, twenty-one years later…
Each year, the trade publication Education Week ranks the public school systems of the 50 states + District of Columbia. The criteria the rankings are based on include, among other things, accountability standards, college readiness of high school graduates, spending and … Continue reading
Posted in Local interest, On Community
Tagged budget, education, Measure 5, Oregon, Portland Schools Foundation, PPS, public, sales tax, schools
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Thoughts on the new PPS budget cuts…
Not unexpectedly, we’re going to have to make some changes. Although I’m a mere outsider with kids in elementary school, I can’t help making certain observations that rub my sensibilities the wrong way. In trying to learn as much as … Continue reading
Posted in Local interest, On Community
Tagged budget, education, Measure 5, Oregon, PPS, schools, Transfer Policy
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Rallying all geniuses…
What better way to spend President’s Day than to remind politicians of the reason for their existence? Today, the kids and I hopped on a PTA sponsored bus to Salem, to partake in a rally to alert our electeds to … Continue reading
Posted in Local interest, On Community
Tagged budget, Diversity, Educational equality, High School, Measure 5, politics, PPS, rally, Salem
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Rebuttal to Those Who Vote With Their Feet!
I wrote the rebuttal below at the end of last spring, when Jefferson High School was mere inches away from being permanently shuttered by the PPS School Board, in order to urge supporters to sign a petition to let Jefferson … Continue reading
Thoughts On the New PPS Budget Cuts…
Not unexpectedly, we’re going to have to make some changes. Although I’m a mere outsider with kids in elementary school, I can’t help making certain observations that rub my sensibilities the wrong way. In trying to learn as much as … Continue reading
Posted in Local interest, On Community
Tagged budget, Educational equality, Jefferson High School, NoPo, PPS, Transfer Policy
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Kill the PPS Transfer Policy!!!
First of all – in the name of full disclosure, my kids take part in an Educational Options program that is only offered in one location, so this post is not intended to adopt a holier-than-thou – attitude. Quite the … Continue reading
Is this why kids aren’t allowed to return to Jeff?
Contained in this link is the absolute best overview of the miserable thing we call the PPS Transfer Policy, I could find. In fact, it is so good, that it – as a few of the subsequent comments suggest – … Continue reading
Okay NoPo people- you have to read these…
In the quest for neighborhood educational equality, I’ve posted two blog entries – one on Diversity (January 18) and one on What is good at Jefferson HS (January 20). I’m working on a third, but in researching the origins of … Continue reading
Posted in Jefferson High School, Local interest, On Community
Tagged blogs, Educational equality, High School, Jefferson High School, PPS, Resources
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Jefferson Myth Busters and Other Good News
For those of you who have taken an interest in the January 18th posting on Racial Bias in Portland Public Schools, (and of course for anyone else reading), this post will point out the things that are indeed good at … Continue reading
Three Cheers for Diversity – on Racial Bias in Portland Public Schools
This posting could have been posted yesterday, on Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. However, much of its contents would have made him turn in his grave, so I opted to respect his memory by waiting until today. For over a … Continue reading
The Creative Flux 