February 3, 2016
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INSIDE
The
Week in Review
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L OCAL N EWS
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S PORTS
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M ETRO
Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi are founders of the largest anti-racist movement in
recent history with their group Black Lives Matter. Garza and Tometi will be in Portland on Feb. 16 to
speak to the community as part of Black History Month at Portland State University.
Black Lives Matter
Movement founders to speak at PSU
Portland State University is ments in recent history to speak to
bringing the founders of one of the the community.
Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi
largest national anti-racist move-
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ENTERTAINMENT
C LASSIFIEDS
C ALENDAR
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Jefferson High School achieves a historic turnaround in graduate rates.
Graduation Rates Soar
SEI supported improvement at Jefferson
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Portland students are making
historic progress on their high
school graduation rates. The im-
by
provement was outlined in a new and
English-as-a-second-lan-
state report card that showed guage students.
spikes in almost every racial
Overall, around 74 percent of
group’s graduation rates, includ-
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ing low-income, Latino, black,