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		<title>The end of the line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We're calling it quits at <em>PPS Equity</em>. It's time to get off the blogs and take to the streets.]]></description>
		<link>http://ppsequity.org/2010/03/28/the-end-of-the-line/</link>
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		<title>Zeke Smith – Closing the Gap Then and Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The high school redesign process is a mess but I have to wonder if that’s intentional.  Closing the achievement gap isn’t that complicated.  The district has had many opportunities to work towards closing the gap but failed to do so.]]></description>
		<link>http://ppsequity.org/2010/03/14/zeke-smith-%e2%80%93-closing-the-gap-then-and-now/</link>
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		<title>Starbase speech to the PPS school board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[here is the speech i gave Monday, March 8: Good evening. I am Nancy Ellen Rawley, the mother of two students, a 2nd and a 5th grader at North Portland school. I am co-publisher of PPS Equity.org and a PPS employee. I am also a member of PFTCE. But tonight I am here as my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ppsequity.org/2010/03/13/starbase-speech-to-the-pps-school-board/</link>
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		<title>STARBASE reauthorized on a 4-3 vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Portland Public Schools board of education voted 4-3 tonight to approve another year of STARBASE, the Department of Defense's elementary school recruiting program.

Principled "no" votes were cast by co-chair Ruth Adkins, Martin Gonzalez and Dilafruz Williams. David Wynde, Bobbie Regan, Pam Knowles and co-chair Trudy Sargent carried the resolution.]]></description>
		<link>http://ppsequity.org/2010/03/08/starbase-reauthorized-on-a-4-3-vote/</link>
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		<title>STARBASE rally TONIGHT!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a delay to get more information, the school board is once again poised to approve the STARBASE program, which sells the military access to fourth and fifth graders for a couple hundred thousand dollars. The rally is at 6pm Monday at district headquarters, 501 N. Dixon Street.]]></description>
		<link>http://ppsequity.org/2010/03/05/starbase-rally-monday-evening/</link>
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		<title>FREE Public Education… But Please Donate at Roosevelt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ POWER Academy at Roosevelt had $24,962 in Title I funds remaining at the end of the 2008/09 school year, but they ask for their majority free and reduced lunch students to pay fees, unlike wealthier schools.]]></description>
		<link>http://ppsequity.org/2010/03/04/free-public-education%e2%80%a6-but-please-donate-at-roosevelt/</link>
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		<title>Did PPS Waste $4,964,861 on an Ineffective Math and Science Program?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why did PPS discard an effective, inexpensive science and math program? Why do they favor of a weak, non-sustainable, military-funded science and math program?]]></description>
		<link>http://ppsequity.org/2010/03/01/did-pps-waste-4964861-on-an-ineffective-math-and-science-program/</link>
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		<title>Teacher contract approved: What&#8217;s it mean for teachers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It sounds like the district got at least part of what they wanted regarding instructional time. What did teachers get, besides modest cost of living raises for two out of three years? What's the teacher mood?]]></description>
		<link>http://ppsequity.org/2010/03/01/teacher-contract-approved-whats-it-mean-for-teachers/</link>
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		<title>Inequities in Special Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we blog, march, form coalitions, and community-meeting ourselves into a frenzy over the blatant inequities in education in PPS there is still a population of families that are not being heard in the large public forums and whose issues are invisible to most.]]></description>
		<link>http://ppsequity.org/2010/02/26/inequities-in-special-education/</link>
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		<title>HS Redesign resolution: a few suggestions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the body of a letter to the Superintendent, School Board and Redesign Team.  This version contains a few more points and questions that I wish I had thought to include in the original.  My thanks to others out there whose research helped me write this.]]></description>
		<link>http://ppsequity.org/2010/02/26/hs-redesign-resolution-a-few-suggestions/</link>
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