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Ten years after Portland's Jefferson High School staff was fired and forced to reapply for their jobs; 25 years after the groundbreaking "Nation at Risk" report described the public school system as completely inadequate – paving the way for the radical No Child Left Behind Act — our students are still getting shortchanged. We know what they need, yet our schools often fail at offering even the basics – even as they reap multi-million-dollar grants from private foundations to teach biotechnology and computer science.
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