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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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