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		<title>Mayor Sam Adams</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does a Marshall parent have to do to get a meeting with the mayor? Mayor Sam Adams: Please check your messages and return calls to your constituents. Share and Enjoy:]]></description>
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		<title>Trudy&#8217;s Commencement Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dishonor Roll]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A message to Marshall&#8217;s Class of 2010 Graduating seniors, rejoice!Congratulations on reaching this important milestone. On behalf of the school board, we offer our best wishes as you enter this next stage of your life. The diploma that you&#8217;ve earned, through hard work and dedication, provides you with a strong foundation for the countless directions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPS Big Ideas (Contracts for Friends) Q &amp; A</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 16:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 20, 2009 PPS Big Ideas Q &#38; A offers some insight into the future.  Pull your wallets out because it will require BIG BUDGETS. Q9: Is high school redesign leading to a facilities bond for PPS? YES. However, to make any decisions about high school buildings, we must make decisions about the programs within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fred Locke&#8217;s Dream Job</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/fred-lockes-dream-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 13:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Marshall small school principal Fred Locke showed up at last night&#8217;s community meeting to plead with the community to please, please support his dream of a focus school at Marshall.  The crowd overwhelmingly said NO.  They don&#8217;t want a small school at Marshall. Give it up Fred.  Your dream is Marshall&#8217;s nightmare.  If you want to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But What About Jobs For My Friends?</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/03/but-what-about-jobs-for-my-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[It's About Who You Know]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across this PPS Board policy when looking for another policy:  Position Titles &#8211; Administrative Directive 5.60.014-AD   (1) Systematic procedures in personnel management require that there be consistency in assigning titles for classes of positions in which the work and responsibility are reasonably comparable. In order to avoid the confusion resulting from the proliferation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Encores for Zeke</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/03/no-encores-for-zeke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[It's About Who You Know]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Have you ever wondered about Zeke Smith&#8217;s qualifications to be PPS Chief of Staff and the lead on the high school redesign?  The Chief of Staff  job description describes a very high level of job responsibilities but doesn&#8217;t list ANY minimum job qualifications.   Would you expect the lead of a major education system redesign to have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With Friends Like These</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/01/with-friends-like-these/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when the Portland Public School board voted to unanimously back measures 66 and 67, it seems strange that the PPS  Human Resources Department would list the Portland Business Alliance (PBA) as one of its Resources.  Willamette Week  recently reported that companies were funneling large amounts of money through the Portland Business Alliance to defeat the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPS Conflict of Interests</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2009/12/is-there-a-conflict-of-interest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[health and safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restructuring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school closures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  I&#8217;ve never forgotten my first visit to Whitaker Middle School in June 2001.  It was shortly after Willamette Week broke the story  The Poisoning of Whitaker.  The Willamette Week story exposed a long history of radon poisoning along with other indoor air quality concerns at the school.  For about 10 years, PPS administrators failed to adequately address [...]]]></description>
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