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March 30, 2016
The
Boy Dies in Path of Traffic
Week in Review
A 10 year-old boy was killed Monday when he in-
advertently stepped into the pathway of a vehicle on
Burnside Street and 162nd Avenue near a Max light
rail station, police said. Investigators believe Jaafar
Shbeb was not paying attention to the flow of traffic
when he stepped into the roadway and was struck.
School Site for Homeless
Mayor Charlie Hales and Portland Public Schools
Superintendent Carole Smith have cut a deal to place
a homeless shelter in a storage building on the site
of the former Washington High School in southeast
Portland. The city would get free rent and in return
promise the district ongoing funding for school se-
curity and student bus passes.
Sexual Assault Arrest
A man wanted for sexually assaulting a woman who
sought help to repair a flat tire on her bicycle while
using the Springwater corridor near Gresham was
arrested Friday. Thomas Peacock, 50, was identified
as the suspect in the March 18 assault after tips re-
ceived on a Gresham Police tip line, police said.
Big Wins for Bernie Sanders
Following multiple stops in the
Northwest in recent days and a
packed Moda Center crowd on
Friday, Bernie Sanders did not
just win all three states that voted
this past weekend -- Washington,
Alaska and Hawaii -- he won
them by overwhelming, impressive margins. The pres-
idential hopeful won every county in Washington.
Trump Manager Charged
Florida police have charged Donald Trump’s cam-
paign manager Corey Lewandowski with simple
assault in connection with an incident earlier in the
month involving a reporter. A surveillance video re-
leased by the police appears to show Lewandowski
grabbing a reporter for Breitbart News as she tried
to ask Trump a question during a March 8 campaign
event.
California Eyes $15 Minimum
A political deal to raise California’s minimum wage
to a nation-leading $15 an hour over six years could
help some workers cope with the state’s crushing
cost of living but also deprive other low-wage earn-
ers of jobs altogether, economists said as Gov. Jer-
ry Brown and other leaders touted what would be a
landmark agreement.
Patty Duke Dead at 69
Actress Anna “Patty Duke” Pearce, who won an Os-
car for her role as Helen Keller in 1962’s “The Mira-
cle Worker,” died
Tuesday at age
69. The actress
also played identi-
cal cousins on the
popular “Patty Duke Show” in the early 1960s, and
also charted on Billboard’s top ten with her song
“Don’t Just Stand There.”
Photo by M ark W ashington /t he P ortland o bserver
The Harriet Tubman school building in north Portland would reopen as a middle school in 2017 if a
new proposal to balance district enrollment is approved next week. The building is currently a tempo-
rary location for Faubion Elementary, a northeast Portland K-8 school which is being rebuilt.
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Enrollment
balancing fatal
for most K-8s
Portland School Superinten-
dent Carole Smith announced
Monday that she has made her
recommendations to the school
board for balancing enrollment
across schools and reconfiguring
many K-8 schools into K-5s and
middle schools.
The school board will consid-
er the proposal at a public hear-
ing scheduled for Wednesday at
6 p.m. at district headquarters
and then vote on the plan on
Tuesday, April 5.
For north and northeast Port-
land, the proposal calls for Ock-
ley Green once again becoming
a middle school, phased in over
two years. Beach, Chief Joseph,
Peninsula and Woodlawn would
become K-5 buildings, and stu-
dents will then attend Ockley
Green for middle school.
By the fall of 2017, the Har-
riet Tubman building in north
Portland, a former middle school
for girls that was closed just
four years ago, would reopen as
a middle school for both sexes,
as would Roseway Heights in
northeast Portland.
Boise-Eliot/Humboldt , King,
Sabin, and Irvington would con-
vert to K-5s, with students at-
tending Tubman. Rose City Park
would open as a K-5 neighbor-
hood school and students would
attend Roseway Heights Middle
School.
Scott, Vestal, and Lee would
be converted to K-5s, with
students attending Roseway
Heights Middle School. AC-
CESS Academy would move to
Humboldt School which is now
vacant. Vernon K-8 will be con-
verted to a K-5 and students will
then attend Beaumont Middle
School.
By the fall of 2018, Kellogg
would reopen as a middle school
in southeast Portland, and Astor
would be converted to a K-5 in
north Portland with its students
attending George Middle School.
Several changes are also
planned for the west side of
Portland to relieving overcrowd-
ing at Chapman K-5 and Lincoln
High School.