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My 12 year old goes to Harriet Tubman Leadership Academy For Young Women.  It is attached to Jefferson High School and it is disheartening to constantly get letters from PPS that say that Jefferson is a failing school under No Child Left Behind.   There is not enough money in this economy and budget crisis to throw at this problem to change the graduation rate.   Something needs to be done to change it and I am not sure if the closure would be good or bad.  

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Measure 5 was a mistake that could have been avoided if anyone had looked over the border to California and Prop 13.  We now need to figure out how to fix it so we don't go bankrupt like California.  

Funneling the “kicker” back to the schools may help our future.  The children going through school now are the future and if we do not change it we will always be feeding the prison system.  

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When considering the 9% across the board cuts, why is no one up in arms and rejecting K-12 school cuts like they are rejecting the prison cuts?  We are facing a graduation problem and this problem could be solved by throwing money at it not cutting from it.  If you cut everything beyond reading, writing and math, students lose interest in school and tend to drop out.  Oregon already has one of the shortest school years in the country and school districts are trying to cut more days.   My child is in public school and her school is possibly on the chopping block. 

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For the caller with the bras-  Contact the American Cancer Society and they have a loan closet at their cancer resource centers.  The loan closets are for cancer patients and the bras can be made into mastecomey bras. 

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