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I was wondering if I was the only one who makes a connection between land use policy and the availability of affordable housing? I am in the process of trying to become a first time home buyer, and we are finding that we will have to leave our close-in apartment for a suburban or other outer-metro area. If you look at these neighborhoods, you overwhelmingly see other families like ours: hardworking, lower income, often minorities. How can we be sure that as we limit urban growth that we can keep the urban areas affordable to the vital, diverse population?

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I am an Oregon teacher, and I am in complete agreement! If we logically think about the goals of NCLB, we realize that they are inherently unreachable. The language of NCLB states that all students must be "at or above level," but this is determined by looking at averages. Do we need to give Bush a math lesson? Averages always include a standard deviation--that's the +/-. There will always be some students and schools below others.

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