"Smith's main goal is to help reduce the stubbornly high dropout rate -- less than 60 percent of Portland Public Schools' high school students graduate in four years -- and end glaring inequities between the curriculum offered to most of the city's white and middle-class students and its minority and low-income teens."
The school system in Oregon has been a mess ever since I moved here in the mid-sixties. And now barely half the high school students graduate. But because we were the first to recycle bottles and today we have a lot of bicyclists, folks generally think of Oregon as "progressive". Not true where it counts, in education.
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