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Public Schools Divided by Race
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"This is exciting enough to bring
them back into the cluster." Since
"suddenly Jefferson is not failing
its AYP" with the reconfiguration,
she has had success signing up
students from other struggling ar­
eas.
Jefferson administrators argue
that the return of public single-sex
education to Portland has nothing
to do with race, but rather seeks to
make up for the different ways that
girls and boys learn.
Young Men's Academy Admin­
istrator Willie Holmes says. "Boys
in general, white, black, whatever,
perform under girls after the fourth
grade."
Lora cites research that sees fewer
girls taking leadership positions.
"We don't want to be stealing
students from other schools, but
we’re starting a movement," she
says.
Trillium teacher Kirk Ellis argues
his school is so different from
Jefferson that the two schools don' t
compete.
Few students transfer between
Trillium and Jefferson, but both
schools are responding to the same
research. Holmes says, "Charter
schools just looked at the same
research we did.”
T rillium D irector Stephanie
Hinkle agrees that "the research
has shown a preference to smaller
learning communities" that have
recently multiplied in Portland. She
says that the increasing racial seg­
regation of these communities is
"one of the most frightening trends
of the past 15 years...w e just want
to be another option.”
Although Portland's neighbor­
hoods have desegregated to some
degree. Hinkle thinks the increas­
ing school segregation is due to
cultural preferences. "I'm the wrong
person to speak for the African
American community." she says,
"but there are some families that
look for a more top-down approach
to education."
in the community."
Some view the situation through­
Jefferson's Phoebe Tyeskey
suggests charter schools "may not out Portland’s schools as repre­
be offering programs that are of sentative of a larger problem.
interest to African American stu­
Williams says, “If a neighbor­
hood wants to commit itself to
dents."
Holmes sees "a passionate hate multiculturalism and desegrega­
for Jefferson; whether it's racist or tion, it needs to focus not only on
not, it's definitely a stereotypical the schools, but also on the kind of
view of the young men and women society we want to become."
Aurora Lora, Jefferson
Young Women s Academy
administrator.
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