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Failing Oregon
Schools List Released
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abilities and children who don’t
speak English, said Gene Evans, a
spokesman for the Oregon Depart­
ment o f Education.
The list now includes some o f
the s ta te ’s b est-reg ard ed high
schools in its wealthiest enclaves,
including Lincoln High in Portland,
Lake Oswego High School and
Ashland High School.
proficiency levels on reading and
math tests for a school to avoid
being tagged with the "needs
improvement" label.
But by 2014, 100 percent o f
students w i 11 be expected to meet
the targets.
Statewide, most schools on
the list were there because o f the
The Associated Press contrib­
performance ofstudents with dis­ uted to this report.
Coalition Shines Light
on Community Health
The Coalition hopes to raise
$30,000 at the walk to sustain
bo th a4 -m ilean d l-m ileroute.
wellness programs already in place.
The local health coalition is
“W e're bridging the gap,” said
one o f only 44 national REACH Me Keever, who is w alking in the
(Racial and Ethnic Approaches event.
toCom m unity Health) programs
To sign up for one o f the walks,
selected by the Centers for Dis­ send a $ 15 registration fee to A fri­
ease Control and Prevention to can American Health Coalition, Inc.
develop community-driven strat­ 2800 N. Vancouver Ave., Suite 100
egies to improve minority health. orcal!503-4l3-l850.
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Grass fields occupy some of the 30 acres o f land on the west bank of the Willamette River where a $1.5 billion city-sponsored
development of new businesses and housing is proposed. Minority and women construction workers say current plans leave them
out o f contracting opportunities.
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Waterfront Plans Sidestep Disadvantaged
prenticeship programs.
One o f Leonard’s aides chas­
Leonard, and othercity officials, tised Baugh for bringing the matter
Contractors.
said they sympathize with Baugh's to council without first approach­
His comments appeared to spoi I concerns, but aren’t inclined to ing heroffice. Similarly, PDCoffi-
C ity C o m m issio n e r R andy slow up the process to accom mo­ cials feel the matter should be ad­
L eonard’s announcem ent o f an
agreement with the Metropolitan
Alliance to provide affordable jobs
on the project.
“I’m not against this develop­
ment,” Baugh told council. “But we
want opportunities to get minori­
ties onto the work force that will
receive the wages.”
The coalition o f minority groups
is asking that 35 percent o f the
w o rk fo rce be m in o ritie s and - Builder Andre Baugh representlngminority contractors
wom en, with 20 percent being
people o f color.
date them.
d ressed , but the developm ent
O neofB augh’scomplaints.long
“W e’re seeking to have workers agreement should not be altered to
voiced by African-American con­ get prevailing wages and there are reflect it.
tractors, is that minorities have dif­ no conditions under which that
‘‘They’re offering us promises o f
ficulty gaining places in union ap­ shouldn’t happen,” Leonard said. something happening in the future
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Very’ few o f us will be able to
afford the housing that will be
built here, but at least we can
get some benefit from it by
helping to build it.
and w e’ve had a bag full o f those,"
Baugh complained. “W e’re spend­
ing a lot o f public money on this
project and who is the beneficiary?
Very few o f us will be able to afford
the housing that will be built here,
but at least we can get some benefit
from it by helping to build it.”
C ontractor Jam es Posey has
been raising this issue for 20 years.
"This is an attempt to solidify
the unions’ hold on city contracts,”
he told the Portland Observer. “Pre­
vailing w ages’ is a smoke screen.
Almost everywhere it has been
used, the end result has been that
women and minorities have been
excluded from work.”
Posey said just a handful o f mi­
nority apprentices have graduated
to ji^im eym an in Portland and
maybe two o f those workers are sti II
in the system.
Judge ‘Busted’
for Misconduct
The Oregon Supreme Court Stebbeds in the bar area o f a
has ce n su red a M ultnom ah Beaverton restaurant with two
County Circuit Court judge for friends. She walked over to him,
her conduct in ordering a man poked him in the shoulder and said
whom she had put on probation ’You’rebusted’ and ordered him to
to leave a bar.
leave the bar, the Supreme Court
Judge Dorothy Baker super­ said.
vises a program that closely moni­
Stebbeds said he believed he
tors convicted drunken drivers could be in the bar as long as he was
in an effort to reduce repeat of­ only eating and not drinking alco­
fenses.
hol.
The disciplinary case before
A waitress said she believed she
the high ourt involved Lawrence was witnessing a domestic distur­
Stebbeds, a repeat drunk driver bance.
who Baker had earlier ordered
The court said Baker admitted
not to go to bars.
that her conduct violated several
B a k er h ap p e n ed to see judicial rules.
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