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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Jefferson High School's Dual Enrollment Dilemma
Description: Last week, Portland Public Schools Superintendent Kimberlee Armstrong announced her plan to end Jefferson High Schoolâs âdual-enrollment policyââwhich allows families in its boundaries to choose between Jefferson or nearby Grant, Roosevelt, or McDaniel high schools instead. Translation? No more school choice for families in North Portland, choices they have enjoyed since 2011. As Willamette Weekâs reporter put it directly, âPPS Considers Requiring Students in Jefferson Catchment to Attend the School.âIt seems, now that Jefferson has a half-billion dollars to build a âworld-class schoolâ with capacity for 1,700 students, fewer than 400 students will cut the ribbon on opening day, accor...