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Northeast School Boundaries Changed
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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
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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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