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	<title>Cheating in Class &#187; Equity</title>
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		<title>Rally and Testimony to Support Equity in Education in PPS</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/08/rally-and-testimony-to-support-equity-in-education-in-pps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come and show your support for all learners in Portland Public Schools. The recommended budget cuts to special education and ESL services are disproportionate and will impact all students in PPS negatively. More details to be announced soon. We need students, peers, siblings, teachers, staff, community members, organizations, alumni, parents, grandparents, foster parents, and extended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPS Set to Close 60% of the High Schools Making the Grade</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/08/pps-set-to-close-60-of-the-high-schools-making-the-grade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state just released the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) reports and 3 of the 5 PPS high schools making AYP are at Marshall.  Superintendent Smith&#8217;s poorly thought out plan to create equity and improve high schools would close all 3 Marshall schools. Now the district has the opportunity to learn from Marshall&#8217;s success but will anyone from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPS is Once Again Responsible for Declining Enrollment at Selected Schools</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/07/pps-is-once-again-responsible-for-declining-enrollment-at-selected-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s incoming Freshman class at Marshall would have been its largest in years but then Carole Smith got involved.  Prior to board approval of Smith&#8217;s recommendations for high schools, Smith announced that Marshall wouldn&#8217;t be taking incoming freshman.  Parents of those students were sent letters saying that their kidswould be going to the recommended feeder [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hold Everything Until Pam Hears From the Close the Gap People</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/07/hold-everything-until-pam-hears-from-the-close-the-gap-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure I must live in the wrong zip code because I&#8217;ve written the PPS school board several times and only received one response from a board member.  Hint: it wasn&#8217;t Pam.  But when a Grant parent writes the board they receive this: Thanks &#8212;-.  I was wondering where the Grant community was.  There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Involuntary Donations From Poor Kids</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/06/involuntary-donations-from-poor-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read quite a few online comments encouraging wealthier parents to make donations to their school foundations to offset PPS proposed budget cuts at some of the better high schools.  I wonder how many of those parents will be donating $6,821 over the next four years.  That&#8217;s what Marshall students could be donating over a four year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building on Lincoln&#8217;s Success</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/06/building-on-lincolns-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class Pictures]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Equity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lincoln women who testified at tonight&#8217;s board meeting and encouraged board members to close schools prompted me to revisit some data.  Lincoln, Grant, Wilson and Cleveland are viewed as &#8220;successful schools&#8221; but what students are successful at those schools?  The data below is for Lincoln but Grant and Wilson look similar. Black students accounted for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stand on Children</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/06/stand-on-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lincoln has publicly entered the school closure discussion.  The Lincoln Stand for Children representative just testified before the board encouraging them to consolidate schools now.  She told board members not to cave to political pressure.  Lincoln can&#8217;t withstand the kinds of cuts the superintendent has proposed.  The Lincoln Long Term Development Committee  wants to build a brand [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Moving Targets</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/06/moving-targets/</link>
		<comments>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/06/moving-targets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class Pictures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marshall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Superintendent Smith&#8217;s announcement about budget cuts today Smith said: Although high schools as a whole would lose 10 percent of their positions, Roosevelt and Jefferson high schools would be shielded from any loss, Smith said. Those two schools are in a protected &#8220;academic priority zone,&#8221; due to high poverty levels among their students. The district&#8217;s eight other [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Marshall&#8217;s Future</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/06/marshalls-future/</link>
		<comments>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/06/marshalls-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The feeling of many who saw Monday&#8217;s school board board meeting is that the district has still set Marshall up on a course towards failure.  Suspension of the high school redesign just bought us an additional year. At this point, we still have more questions than answers.  Among them: Will Marshall be identified as an Academic Priority Zone for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>PPS Stands to Lose a Minimum of $30,320,766 More Per Year</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/06/pps-stands-to-lose-a-minimum-of/</link>
		<comments>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/06/pps-stands-to-lose-a-minimum-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marshall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talking Back]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Marshall community is still waiting for  clarification from MESD regarding some basic boundary change petition requirements. Meanwhile, here&#8217;s what PPS could lose when the Marshall cluster secedes from PPS: $28,162,711 in general funds 4,400 students ESL students (cluster average is 25%  of the population) and the funding that comes with them SPED students (cluster average is 18% of the [...]]]></description>
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