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The Portland School Board ac
cepted a $375 million budget M on
day, which includes $25 million in
cuts and the elimination 250 teach
ers and staff across the board.
Although $2 million was given
back for under-perform ing and
schools with high populations of
minority students, a loss of $8 mil
lion in state desegregation money
will mean the cuts are more severe
in north and northeast Portland.
The district is also facing a $33
Board Hopefuls Meet Public in Forums
The Portland Schools Founda
tion will join theCity Club of Port
land and the Portland Business
Alliance to host a forum with
Portland’s school board candi
dates on Thursday, May 5 at 7:30
a.m. at the Governor Hotel.
Later the same day, a second
forum at the Portland Public School
Headquarters will be held at 6:30
p.m „ sponsored by the schools
foundation. Community Parents for
Public Schools, the Latino Network,
the League of W omen Voters, the
Oregon PT A and the Urban League
of Portland.
The election to replace three
retiring school board members will
take place on May 17th. Ballots
will be mailed on Friday, April 29.
School board members Julie
Brim Edwards, Lolenzo Poe and
Derry Jackson, all have decided
not to seek re-election.
million cut from local property tax
revenue.
Jefferson High School will have
18 teachers cut from its 60-member
staff. Franklin High School, on the
other hand, will lose only one
teacher from its 73-m em ber staff.
All of this equals about 10 per
c e n t o f th e sc h o o l d is tr ic t
workforce.
Programs saved include out
door school for sixth graders, and
tennis, golf and dance activities,
but only with increased fees and
fund-raising.
The rest of the budget will go
toward closure o f five schools,
repairs on existing schools and
hiring o f new adm inistrators.
During the 2006-07 school year,
even more cuts are expected with
the loss of the Multnomah County
tem porary incom e tax, w hich
brings in $50 million a year.
School districts across the state
of Oregon are feeling the heat as
well. The state has gone down
from ranking 20th in the nation in
per-student spending and is now
in 31 “ place.
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Suspect at large,
reward offered
Last month, a 12-year-old girl
told police she was dragged by
knifepoint into a bathroom at Co
lumbia Park in north Portland.
The girl was walking home from
school through the park when the
man asked her for the time, said
Portland police Sgt. Kim Keist.
She told police her attacker had
a folding knife with a five-inch blade
and raped her inside the brick Co
lumbia Cottage bathrooms at the
south end o f the park, near the
intersection of North Lombard and
Russet streets.
S he w as ta k e n to L egacy
Emanuel Hospital and Health Cen
ter for an examination.
The suspect was described as a
thin black man, age 20 to 25, and
about six feet tall and a thin "peach
fuzz” type mustache on his upper
lip. He was wearing a black baseball
cap, with a “do-rag,” a white tank
top “wife beater,” a fur lined black
puffy jacket and dark baggy jeans.
Anyone with information about
this case or who can identify the
suspect is asked tocall Crime Stop
pers.
Crime Stopper is offering cash
reward of up to $ 1,000 for informa
tion reported that leads to an arrest
in this case or any other unsolved
felony. As always those with infor
mation can remain anonymous and
can be reached at 503-823-4357
Portland police released this
sketch o f a rape suspect.
‘No Child Left Behind’ Suit Filed
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Leading the fight is the National
( AP) - The nation’s largest teach
Education
Association, a union of
ers union and school districts in
2.7
million
members. Its objections
three states are suing the Bush
to
Bush’s
law prompted former
administration over the No Child
Education
Secretary
Rod Paige to
Left Behind law, aiming to free
call
the
NEA
a
“terrorist
organiza
schools from complying with any
part not paid for by the federal tion.”
The other plaintiffs are nine
government.
school
districts in Michigan, Ver
The lawsuit, filed April 20 in the
mont
and
Bush’s home state of
U.S. District Court for eastern Michi
Texas,
plus
10 NEA chapters in
gan, is the first major challenge to
those
states
and
Connecticut, Illi
President Bush’s signature educa
nois,
Indiana,
New
Ham pshire,
tion policy.
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Utah.
The law is widely considered the
most significant federal education
act in decades. It puts particular
emphasis on ensuring that schools
give attention to minorities and poor
children who have long fallen be
hind on achievement.
But the government is accused
of shortchanging schools by at least
$27 billion, the difference between
the amount Congress authorized
and what it has spent.
Moussaoui Pleads Guilty
Admits role in terrorist attacks
(A P) - Z acarias M oussaoui which he som etim es ranted at
pleaded guilty Friday to helping al- Brinkema, answered her questions
Q aida carry out the Sept. 11 politely.
“How do you plead?” she asked
hijackings and said he understood
him
for each of the six felony counts
he could be put to death for his role
against
him. Each time, Moussaoui
in the deadliest terror attack in
answered, “Guilty.”
American history.
At one point, he said, “I was
“I expect no leniency,” he said.
being
trained" on a Boeing 747 “to
U.S. District Judge Leonie M.
Brinkema accepted the plea in fed use this plane to strike the White
eral court in Alexandria, Va., mak House.” He said the training was
ing the French citizen the lone per for a different attack that was to
son convicted in a U.S. court for the come later.
Brinkema asked defense lawyer
2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000
Alan Yamamoto, the only lawyer
people.
Moussaoui, more subdued than Moussaoui would talk to in recent
in earlier court appearances during weeks, if he was satisfied the defen-
Zacarias Moussaoui
dant understood what he was do
ing.
“When I have spoken to him, we
have disagreed,” Yamamoto said.
“He is facing the possibility of death
or life in prison. He has told me that
he understands that.”
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The C ensus B ureau released
data M onday show ing that m i
nority hom eow nership hit an all-
time high during the first quarter
of 2005. The new quarterly record
rate o f 51.6 percent m eans that
15.7 million minority families now
own th e ir ow n hom es in the
U nited States.
Overall homeownership was also
at an all-time high in the first quar D evelopm ent Secretary A lph-
ter, with 74.5 million American fami onso Jackson.
Tw o years ago. President Bush
lies now owning their own homes.
challenged
the nation to create 5.5
“T hese new num bers, com
million
new
minority homeowners
bined with news that sales o f pre
by
the
end
of
this decade. To date,
viously-ow ned homes w ere near
there
has
been
a net increase of 2.3
record levels last m onth, show
m
illion
m
inority
hom eow ners,
that housing is still a leader as
which
represents
43
percent of the
our econom y continues to im
prove,” said Housing and Urban 5.5 million goal.
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