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Assuming that increasing the number of degreed residents will increase employment is magical thinking.  What will all these college grads do for a living?  Are there that many jobs going wanting for lack of degreed applicants?

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Thanks for the insight, Ed.  The greater the aggregation, the more information is obscured.  The subtext of the whole show is that the dropout rate depends on how 'dropout' is defined.

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If this has already been addressed, please ignore:  How does Portland benchmark on these variables compared to other similarly funded metropolitan school districts?  How does Oregon benchmark compared to other states?

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