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held by the federal Department of and keeping teachers aw are of out-
Education and analyzed by the of-school issues kids may be en
social and academic, as well as in American Federation of Teachers countering.
"W e’ve emphasized to parents
school, after school, and during in a recent report.
Supporters are coughing up ex that we ca n 't do this without them.
w eekends and vacations The
school features block scheduling, cuses from “the at-risk kids that fill In order to make their child's expe
including double math and double charter schools are harder to teach” rience powerful, we need them to be
reading classes, a daily advisory to "don't overlook the successes." involved," Butler said.
Electives swiftly slipping from
period with an adult ad\ isor. and Most of all, their message is, "give
public schools, including physical
extended programs until 7 p.m. on us time."
The success of alternative edu education and music, are em pha
Tuesdays and Thursdays, which
includes dinner and organized cation models will become a local sized at the academy. The campus
issue when A cadem y students boasts a dance studio with ballet,
homework sessions.
Hopson isn’t shy about recog leave SEI and transfer back into hip hop and African dance classes,
nizing his organization's achieve Portland Public Schools for high a choir and band, and a possibility
of adding "H ola Hola," a foreign
school.
ments.
language education program.
“We
don't
want
to
get
too
far
“W e’ve had success with bring
“O ur curriculum is really rich as
ing people together unlike any other from the PPS plan because that
group out there. We do a better job would be a setup for students,” far as multiculturalism.” said But
continued
from Front
Colombia to Build Drug Crime Museum
Country says ‘never again' to drug lord control
(AP) — A sprawling hacienda
once ow ned by Pablo Escobar,
em blem atic of the drug lord’s ex
cesses, may soon house a mu
seum highlighting the evils of drug
trafficking, a top Colombian offi
cial said.
Escobar, a leader o f the now
defunct M edellin cocaine cartel,
waskilledin 1993 in a hail of police
bullets after waging a war o f terror
in Colombia.
L ast m onth, a court in the
state o f A ntioquia, w here the
H acienda N apoles ranch is lo
cated, gave the C olom bian g o v
ernm ent official title to the prop
erty after a 15-year battle with
E sco b a r’s fam ily.
Col. Luis Alfonso Plazas, head
of the National Drug Directorate,
or DNE, said he wants to build a
museum on the 4.500-acre spread
to remind Colombians "to never
again create somebody as evil as
Pablo Escobar.”
T he crim e m useum w ould
show "all the barbarities that
o ccu rred in C o lo m b ia in the
Project manager Carry McClelland, and Principle Natasha
Butler (right), discuss the first day of school.
PHOTOS BY M i l H O I R l B KSSTHS/THr P o R T H S l) O B s m \m
f
d s, zebras and ostriches. About
1980s due to n arco traffick in g ,”
he said.
In h iseffo rt to fight extradition
to the U nited States, E scobar and
other M edellin cartel leaders o r
dered the assassinations o f gov
ernm ent leaders, police and jo u r
nalists. C ar bom bs exploded ai
10 hippos still slosh around in
artificial lakes on the property.
Escobar mounted alight plane at
the entrance to Hacienda Napoles
- an aircraft which he had used on
one of his first smuggling missions.
Now fallen into disrepair, the
m ost daily in C olom bian cities as
the cartel sought to intim idate
the governm ent from allow ing the
extraditions o f drug traffickers to
the U nited States, w here more
severe p enalties w ere likely.
In its heyday, the ranch co n
tained exotic anim als from around
the w orld, including elephants,
antelope, buffalo, gazelles, cam -
ranch also contained a mansion, a
swimming pool and guest cottages.
The plane was removed long ago.
Eight poor families now squat on
the land, located in the Magdalena
River valley in northwest Colom
bia. They would have to leave, Pla
zas said.
Colombia is the world’s top pro
ducer of cocaine.
Powell Lectures Colombia on Rights Abuses
of involving kids in activities than said ButlerofSE I's partnership with
anybody else. We do a better job of Portland Public Schools.
Disciplinary issues have also
getting parents involved. If you
need to get kids to participate be arisen over the charter system 's
yond the school day or in school, flexible learning environment. Ac
we can help with that. When you cording to Butler, SEI Academy
want to identify businesses and students will have room to chi 11 in a
communities that can help support fu 11 y -eq u i pped gym, a TV room with
you with resources and opportuni beanbag chairs and cduches, and a
ties, we can help with that,” said game room with pool, ping pong
and foosball tables and arcade
Hopson.
Charter schools have been un games.
“Discipline problems come about
der fire nationally for low-perfor
mance on standardized tests. Stu by a lack of communication, with
dents in traditional public schools teachers not being aware of w hat's
largely outperformed students in going on at home,” said Butler.
She explained SEI’s holistic ap
charter schools on the 200.3 Na
tional Assessment of Educational proach to each student’s success
Progress, according to test data by addressing family problems first
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(A P)— Secretary of State Colin
Powell is hailing a drop in murder
and kidnapping rates in Colombia
J
and gains in the counter-narcot-
ler.
i
ics war but says the country may
Besides a library full o f cultur-
not
be m eeting congressional
ally-specific literature and photos
standards
for improving protec
of civil rights leaders hanging in
tion of human rights. If Powell is
hallways and inclusive curriculum,
unable to certify that Colombia
a respect and celebration of differ
has met the requirements, it would
ent cultures is written into the SEI
trigger a cutback in U.S. assis
standards o f conduct.
tance to Colombia.
SEI Academy is currently com
Previous U.S. certifications of
posed o f 45 African-American stu
rights
progress in Colombia have
dents, two Latinos and 2 or 3 white
been
greeted
with a barrage of
kids.
criticism
from
hum an rig h ts
"The real world consists o f all
groups.
cultures. To not have (diversity at
Powell discussed the situation
SEI) would serve as a disadvan
with Colombian President Alvaro
tage," said Butler regarding the
Uribe after joining him and other
hallway dynam ic at a school with
foreign dignitaries for the inaugu
mainly minority students.
ration W ednesday of Panamanian
The academy has not yet de
President Martin Torrijos.
cided on a mascot aud mantra; Butler
He outlined his talks with Uribe
says she wants the kids to have a
and discussed other issues with
hand in those decisions. The school
reporters while flying back to
logo, stamped on every uniform,
W ashington W ednesday night.
depicts a raised hand. Butler says
Torrijos is the son of Omar
kids will soon associate that sym
Torrijos,
whose government ne
bol as a call to attention and a voice
gotiated
the
1978 Panam a Canal
that each academy member pos
treaties
with
the Carter adm inis
sesses.
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dynam ic," Powell said, adding that
a major challenge for him is to ease
Panam a’s great disparity between
rich and poor. He described the gap
as among the worst in the third
world. Torrijos and Powell met im
mediately afterthe
inauguration.
On Colom bia,
Powell praised a
U.S.-backed effort
to eradicate coca,
the raw material for
cocaine. But, he
sa id , new co c a
Colin Pow ell
fields continue to
be found as search efforts pen
etrate into previously unexplored
areas.
Powell said he was heartened by
a drop in murder and kidnapping
rates in Colombia. But he said a
major problem is tocom e up with an
effective plan toenable former guer
rillas from rightist and leftist groups
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This was a major point of his
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