Portland Observer, July 28, 1982 Page 3
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Eddie Edmundson
The A. P h ilip Randolph In s ti
tute's Portland chapter announced
that it w ill again sponsor Operation
Hig Vote in the Portland metropoli
tan area for the Nov. 1982 elections.
Bob Boyer, chapter president,
said the decision was reached last
Thursday, July 8 in a general mem
bership meeting.
Operation Big Vote developed in
1980 as part of national efforts by a
variety o f civil rights and labor o r
ganizations to register and educate
masses o f urban and rural poor, un
employed and ethnic m inority per
sons. The Portland chapter o f the
A. Philip Randolph Institute acted
as coordinator for the voter educa
tion and registration drive here in
1980, Boyer said.
"W e will use the same method as
we used in 1980," Boyer an
nounced. "D istricts 17 and 18—in
ner Northeast P o rtla n d —w ill be
specifically targeted," he added.
In 1980, labor unions and com
munity organizations were recruited
to work specific precincts; 35 to 40
unions and organizations worked
together to register and educate Ore
gonians in inner Northeast.
"F ro m 1976 to 1980," Boyer
said, "some o f the precincts we tar
geted doubled their vote c o u n t."
The target for November is to regis
ter at least 2,000 new voters and get
half that many to vote in November,
he said.
Boyer was one o f eight candidates
in the May 18th primary seeking the
Democratic party nom ination for
the 18th District house seat. Boyer
is an official in the Inland Boatmens
Union.
Boyer, who helped establish the
local chapter in 1978, said the A.
P hilip Randolph Institute, named
after the famous black labor union
organizer who spearheaded blacks'
entry into (he national labor force,
focuses primarily on voter registra
tion and education programs.
Title I program
makes record gains
Test scores show that Jefferson’s
Title I program is the most success
ful in the city. Students enrolled in
the federally funded program fo r
students needing remedial help in
basic skills show the school district's
largest achievement gains.
The JHS program serves nearly
300 students. "W c try to help stu
dents close the gap between their
current achievement level in reading
and math and their grade level," ex
plains Joan Wright, Title I Director.
To q u a lify fo r the program , stu
dents' achievement scores must
show they are functioning at two or
more years below grade level. "W e
are serving fewer students now in
terms o f the total school population
than we did a few years a g o ," she
pointed out.
Title I programs throughout the
nation were established in 1965 as a
part o f the Elementary and Secon
dary Education A ct. Federal law
states the purpose o f these programs
is to improve the education o f disad
vantaged children. As a result o f re
cent legislation, the legal language
co n tro llin g the program w ill soon
change. So, J e ff’ s T itle I s ta ff is
looking for a new name to begin the
year in September.
Jefferson's is a model program
whose design has been replicated at
Roosevelt High School. The reading
component uses a three-stage ap
proach. Stage I is for student with
the most severe reading problems.
Oral fluency, or the ability to read
aloud, is its goal. According to Ms.
W right, these students have d if f i
culty w ith the sounds o f language
and can’ t decode. S kill b uilding
where students expand their com
prehension skills is the focus for stu
dents in the second stage o f reading
im provem ent. The fin a l stage is
reached when students can read to
themselves, decoding the language,
its sounds and meaning, and com
prehend what they have read. The
program uses highly structured
group instruction, which the direct
or feels is important for Title I stu
dents.
The cu rricu lu m is planned, se
quential, and students progress
through stages. Each o f these has
identifiable goals. These parallel the
commonly accepted stages o f read
ing instruction. The program also
uses a single model which the entire
sta ff adopts. It has been used the
past four year without drastic modi
fication. A ll o f the staff members
are certified teachers, and because
the in stru ctio n a l model hasn’ t
changed, staff can spend their en
ergies dealing with students rather
than developing m aterials. "W e
have an extremely dedicated s ta ff,"
boasts Ms. Wright.
The Jefferson program provides
service in math and reading. Ten
full and part-time teachers staff the
program along with a secretary and
community agent.
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In addition, H ill said, the survey
showed 21 per cent o f the students
were planning to work full time, five
per cent would enter the m ilita ry
and six per cent were undecided
upon their future plans.
Approximately 41 per cent o f the
students plan to attend a four-year
college this fall, 22 per cent a two-
year college and five per cent a voca-
tional/technical school.
The survey had a 78 per cent re
sponse rate (2 ,4 15 students) from
Portland’s 3,088 graduating seniors.
“ The survey results are very posi
tive as to the confidence our P ort
land students have fo r success in
continuing their e d u ca tio n ," H ill
said. Considering today’s economy,
most students are not making plans
for college unless they truly believe
they can succeed w ith the invest
ment.
"The Portland school’s adminis
tration sees in these statistics a vote of
confidence by our students that they
have received the kind o f education
in our schools which has prepared
them for college studies,” H ill said.
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Black community
subject of study
Konrad Mark Hamilton, a recent
University of Oregon Honor’s grad
uate, is compiling a history o f the
P ortland Urban League and the
C ity ’ s black com m unity from the
time o f the Urban League o f Port
land’s founding in 1945 to the pre
sent. H am ilton's work w ill be the
firs t history o f the c ity ’ s black
com m unity during this period o f
time, and the first to explore the re
lationship between the black com
munity and the city's principle black
advocacy and social service organiz
ation.
This study follows upon the work
done by Ham ilton fo r his honor’ s
thesis at the University o f Oregon,
which dealt with the history o f the
National Urban League and its role
in the Civil Rights Movement during
the 1960s. This work won Hamilton
the distinction o f being one o f four
individuals to receive the honor’ s
degree in history from the Univer
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sity of Oregon in 1982.
Following the completion of his
Portland study this summer, Hamil
ton will be entering the University of
California at Santa Barbara where
he will be pursuing graduate studies
in Public History under a two-year
fellowship.
Freddye Pettet, Executive Direct
or of the Urban League of Portland,
has cited H a m ilto n ’s efforts as
being important in increasing the
black community’s consciousness of
its recent history and progress. Pet
tet said, " It 's just as important to
know where you’re coming from as
it is to know where you want to go.
Studies such as those done by Kon
rad Hamilton keep us in touch with
our recent past and help provide a
direction for the future.”
Konrad H am ilton is the son o f
Judge H .J . Belton tnd M id o ri
H am ilton o f West Linn and is a
1976 graduate of West Linn High
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