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March 26th, 2008 COREY PEIN | News

What Is The Largest Public High School In The City Of Portland?

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This week’s question to some of the candidates for mayor (we’ll quiz the other six candidates in future weeks):

What is the largest public high school in the city of Portland?

SAM ADAMS, CITY COMMISSIONER:
“Oh wow. The largest public high school in the city of Portland. Wilson.”

SHO DOZONO, AZUMANO TRAVEL OWNER:
“David Douglas.”

CRAIG GIER, BROOKLYN HARDWARE EMPLOYEE:
“Would it be—Grant?”

JAMES B. LEE, RETIRED PHYSICIST:
“I got the one about the bus pass [see "Pop Quiz", WW, March 19], but that’s not mine. Gosh, it’s hard to say. I think it’s Lincoln.”

CHRISTOPHER RICH, “ENTREPRENEUR”:
“Isn’t it Lincoln?”

JEFF TAYLOR, MORTGAGE BROKER:
“Public high school. The city of Portland. Wilson.”

(Answer: David Douglas’ October 2007 enrollment was 2,866; Grant’s 1,642; Wilson’s, 1,533; Lincoln’s, 1,404.)

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03.26.2008 at 05:45 Reply

G. Watzig

It is a pity that Commissioner Adams whose platform running for mayor suggests he is a strong proponent of education for the city doesn�t know what the largest high school is. His myopia of not thinking about this city�s outer east side extends to his whole decision making process. For example, he was eager to spend $40,000 for a few bike boxes in the central city, but totally ignores the lack of sidewalks and crosswalks in the David Douglas District.

03.26.2008 at 08:57 Reply

pdxjw

This is very telling. Sam Adams is supposed to be a wonk and yet doesn't know that David Douglas is the largest high school in Portland? Good to see that Sho knows.

03.26.2008 at 09:49 Reply

RSossel

The question is a bit vague. Although David Douglas is geographically within the city limits of Portland, it is part of the Multnomah Education Service District(MESD), not Portland Public Schools (PPS). Adams can be a proponent of education all he wants (have you known a politician who wasn't?) but he better get realistic. At a recent fund-raiser he said that he wanted every eighth grader in the City of Portland to graduate high school. Certainly this is a laudable hope; however, it's statistically impossible to get a hundred percent of humans to do anything.

03.26.2008 at 10:58 Reply

PHIL J

SHO KNOWS BECAUSE HE WILL SERVE THE "ENTIRE" PORTLAND COMMUNITY!

03.26.2008 at 12:59 Reply

Zarwen

No surprises here. The only one of these guys who has any kind of record on education is Sho.

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