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Northeast School Boundaries Changed
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GPS Tracking Unlawful
The Supreme Court ruled Monday
that police can ’ t put a GPS device on
a suspect's car to track his move­
ments without a warrant, a test case
that upholds basic privacy rights in
the face of new surveillance tech­
nology.
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ing changes include:
A boundary change from the
w estern edge o f the Alam eda/
B eaum ont a tten d an ce area to
Irvington and Sabin K-8 schools.
.(This is intended to ease crow d­
ing at Alameda Elementary School
and to stabilize enrollm ent at
Irvington and Sabin.)
Converting Rigler K-8 School to
a K-5 school, with middle-grade stu­
dents assigned to Beaumont Middle
School. (This is intended to ease
overcrowding at Rigler and provide
Beaumont with a second feeder
Follow ing m onths o f public
discussion regarding enrollm ent
balancing, the Portland School
Board voted unanim ously M on­
day to shift enrollm ent at north­
east Portland schools and to end
special transfers for Sabin and
Skyline K-8 school families.
The approved changes take ef­
fect in September and respond to
overcrowding and under-enroll­
ment of schools - at times - just
blocks away.
School district officials said the
key points of the enrollment balanc-
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school, providing greater enrollment
stability to both schools.)
Keeping Sabin a K-8 school and
providing Vernon with support for
its middle-grade program. (Vernon
now hosts Rigler seventh- and
eighth-graders. Starting this fall,
R ig ler’s m iddle-grade students
would attend Beaumont. Current
seventh-graders at Vernon would
have the right to remain there.)
The school board also unani­
m ously approved ending m iddle
school guarantees to students at
Skyline and Sabin K-8 schools.
age to her brain left the extent of
her recovery in question.
Romney Taxes
In an effort to rem ove attention
from his wealth, which has be­
come a central focus during the
Grant High Hazing
After allegations of hazing among Republican presidential nom inat­
Grant High School male athletes, ing cam paign, Mitt Rom ney on
the M ultnom ah County Youth T uesday released hundreds o f
Services Division began an in­ pages o f tax docum ents, which
vestigation last week in coopera­ offered details for last year’s tax
tion with faculty and staff to en­ filing, show ing that he earned
sure students will be em otionally more than $42.6 m illion over that
and physically safe. Police say period and paid more than $3 m il­
there is no reason to believe any lion dollars in taxes.
children are at risk. No arrests
PDX Travelers Rise
have been made.
According to a recent Port o f Port­
land report, 13 7 m illion passen­
Rep. Giffords Resigns
Rep. G abrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., gers traveled through the Port­
a n n o u n c e d S u n d a y th a t she land International Airport in 2011,
would resign from Congress as a 3.7 increase from 2010, which is
she continues to recover from the attributed to the PDX air service
gunshot wounds she suffered in a option expansion for travelers, in­
shooting ram page on Jan. 8,2011 cluding two daily nonstop flights
to Las Vegas.
during a constitu­
ent m eeting. She
Hit and Run Arrest
nearly died from the
One week after a Ford M ustang
gunshot v^ound to
recklessly crashed into Franklin
her head, and the
High School in a hit and run inci­
severity of the dam-
dent, police arrested the 36-year-
old Joseph Schm eer who was
taken into custody at his residence
on Friday, Jan. 20.
Water Supply Shift
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After heavy rains and stream flows
over the weekend, the unfiltered
Bull Run water supply experienced
an increase in turbidity, which cata­
lyzed the Portland W ater Bureau to
shift Portland’s water source to the
Colombia South Shore well field,
which is 100 percent groundwater,
to ensure residents access to clean
and quality water.
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