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	<title>Cheating in Class &#187; Talking Back</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Our Petition to Change PPS District Boundaries</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/06/our-petition-to-change-pps-district-boundaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks everyone who has offered to help us collect signatures to move Marshall to the David Douglas school district. We had a brief delay while waiting for MESD to catch up with us.  They weren&#8217;t aware that we could petition a boundary change so their lawyers had to draft guidance. We will begin collecting signatures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Was Powerful</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/06/that-was-powerful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Absent from tonight&#8217;s school board work session &#8211; Close the Gap Not the Schools.  Who saw that coming?  Gosh they seemed so sincere too.  Present &#8211; The Oregonian.  Betsy Hammond attended the Marshall community meeting but didn&#8217;t write a story about it.  Nice.  The only school recommended for closure and the Oregonian doesn&#8217;t want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Marshall Community Wants a Comprehensive Neighborhood High School (in our neighborhood)</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/the-marshall-community-wants-a-comprehensive-neighborhood-high-school-in-our-neighborhood/</link>
		<comments>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/the-marshall-community-wants-a-comprehensive-neighborhood-high-school-in-our-neighborhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 05:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The turnout for Thursday&#8217;s community meeting at Marshall was great despite PPS failure to send out an auto-dialer message as promised.  Carole Smith, Zeke Smith and Mark Davalos took questions and statements from students, parents, and community members. Unlike all of the other high school redesign meetings that I&#8217;ve attended, Zeke Smith started out by sitting in the crowd.  Carole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the Board From a Marshall Parent</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/letter-to-the-board-from-a-marshall-parent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 00:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Members of the Board of Education,   Prior to April 26th, as a parent, I concentrated on advocating for the 3 small schools on the Marshall campus to stay open and educating people about the stigma we have to overcome as a school and community. My testimony and that of my 9th grade daughter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPS is Violating the School Initiation and Closure Policy</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/pps-is-violating-the-school-initiation-and-closure-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/pps-is-violating-the-school-initiation-and-closure-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 14:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class Pictures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s be clear on Superintendent Smith&#8217;s high school redesign proposal.  She is recommending that 3 Marshall Campus schools close and a new school opened on the campus.  She is also recommending that Benson High School close and a new program is housed on the campus. Both recommendations are in violation of  PPS School Initiation and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Pay Immediately &#8211; $5,338,221.90</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/please-pay-immediately-5338221-90/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 07:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Description   Total To:  Superintendent Carole Smith            Project Title:  Education Consultants (policy advising, education research, fundraising, lobbying, coaching, mentoring, human resources, budget advising, communications, strategic partnerships, multicultural outreach, diversity training, classroom assistants, child development experts, environmental health, nutrition education, and mediation)           Carrie Adams – (1990-2010) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Careful What You Wish For&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/be-careful-what-you-wish-for/</link>
		<comments>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/be-careful-what-you-wish-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 04:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class Pictures]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cheatinginclass.com/?p=1774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From November 2008- The Bridgespan Group, a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to improving schools, studied the efforts within PPS high schools and tracked student success. The results, although preliminary, show promise. Cleveland High School and Biz Tech High School on the Marshall Campus reported the most notable results, greatly reducing the number of freshmen failing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Closures to Come?</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/more-closures-to-come-2/</link>
		<comments>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/more-closures-to-come-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 03:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zarwen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read this on p. 67 of the Superintendent&#8217;s HS Redesign proposal (emphasis mine):  &#8221;After high school boundaries are finalized, staff will undertake a community engagement process to address these structural issues at the K-8 level. Starting in fall of 2010, the process will result in recommendations on system wide changes to the school board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bullying Problem in PPS</title>
		<link>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/the-bullying-problem-in-pps/</link>
		<comments>http://cheatinginclass.com/2010/05/the-bullying-problem-in-pps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 16:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Superintendent Smith&#8217;s recent recommendation to cut paraeducator and bilingual educational assistant staff is certainly consistent with PPS history.  Like a playground bully, Smith picks on the weakest members. Her recommendation to close Marshall is just one more example of that.  She doesn&#8217;t have the courage to stand up to Grant or Lincoln or Wilson so she [...]]]></description>
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