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The Portland Tribune
Thursday, April 11, 2013
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By JENNIFER ANDERSON
The Tribune
Christopher McBee is decid-
ing between staying close to
home or braving it in the cold
Midwest.
The aspiring engineering stu-
dent has been accepted to Ore-
gon State University and Mar-
quette University, in Milwaukee,
Wisc., which gave him a nice
scholarship offer — but all his
friends are going to OSU.
So McBee, 18, a senior at
Franklin High School, will spend
the rest of the month doing what
most of his college-bound peers
are doing: more campus visits,
more talks with
friends and alumni
and financial aid
officers, and more
soul - searching
about one of the
biggest decisions
of their lives.
More than ever,
Franklin students
have been focusing
on going to college
— and positioning themselves
for success — thanks to a pro-
gram called Franklin Advanced
Scholars. About 400 students
school-wide, nearly a third of the
school, are participating.
“It does create this culture
around college,” says Franklin
counselor Holly Vaughn-Ed-
monds. “It really has pivoted
Franklin to this culture of smart-
ness.”
This year, all 66 senior Ad-
vanced Scholars will graduate
and go on to a 2- or 4-year college,
up from 48 last year.
All have successfully complet-
ed four AP classes (or three AP
and one dual credit) during their
time at Franklin, in addition to
meeting behavior, grade and at-
tendance standards. They’vemet
regularly with their assigned
mentor to discuss topics such as
resume building and the college
application process.
Founded five years ago as
Franklin was struggling to in-
crease its rigor and attract more
students, the program is the only
one in Portland Public Schools
and could soon be a model state-
wide.
Teachers and administrators
created the program “at a time
when our school was looked
downupon,” says SusanAnglada
Bartley, the Advanced Scholars
coordinator and AP English
teacher at Franklin.
Cleveland High, which Frank-
lin is often compared to, has
their International Baccalaure-
ate program for high-achieving
students. Franklin sought to cre-
ate a college-prep environment
of its own, and “now we have
people asking to come to Frank-
lin from Cleveland,” Bartley
says.
All of the Advanced Scholars
have gone on to college.
Franklin’s population grew
more diverse and low-income af-
ter taking in Marshall students,
and Bartley made it her job to
ensure those students were re-
flected in their most rigorous
courses.
Franklin offers 15 AP classes
and seven dual-credit courses, in
which students earn credit at
Portland Community College.
“At other schools,
tracking happens,”
Bartley says. “We
don’t allow track-
ing. Any kid who
gets a D in English,
or gets sent to the
assistant princi-
pal’s office — we
say ‘Have you
thought about Ad-
vanced Scholars?’ “
Seniors have until May 1 to
make their final decisions on
what college they’ll attend.
Seventeen teachers at Frank-
lin, plus the principal and vice
principals, serve as mentors for
the Scholars. The teachers are
awarded small stipends for their
time through aNike School Inno-
vation Fund grant of $10,000 per
year.
Nike has committed to funding
the program with a $10,000 chal-
lenge grant next year, but future
funding is uncertain.
Julia Brim-Edwards, founder
of the Innovation Fund, hopes
the contribution will help lever-
age greater community support.
“Quite simply, it works,” she
says. It “nurtures and drives aca-
demic excellence.”
As education funding falls
short statewide, state Rep. Chris
Harken, D-Beaverton, sees it as
part of the solution. He visited in
the fall and says he was “more
impressed than ever.”
The program “struckme right
away as something which
schools around the state might
use to overcome some of the fi-
nancial shortcomings,” he says.
Farther from home
Bartley’s AP English class-
room at Franklin, room 160, is
ground zero for the Advanced
Scholars.
Now, as it is every spring, her
walls are covered in a patchwork
of orange and purple paper as a
visual representation of her stu-
dents’ college application pro-
cess.
Orange paperswith the names
of colleges on them signify ac-
ceptances; purple papers hold
the names of schools students
are attending.
So far this spring, the 54 stu-
dents inBartley’s twoAPEnglish
classes have garnered 166 accep-
tances.
Alejandro Flores is one of the
few in-state students who were
accepted to Reed College, which
admits just 3 percent of its stu-
dents from Oregon. He was also
accepted to Seattle University,
University of Portland and PSU,
but it will all come down to finan-
cial aid.
“I check themail three times a
day,” says Flores, who wants to
study medicine. While he’d be
the first in his family to attend
college, his parents have always
expected him to go, he says.
The same is true for Paris
Gresham, another Advanced
Scholar who was also coinciden-
tally admitted to Reed.
She’ll soon visit the campus
for a second time, not sure yet if
it’s the right fit. “When I visited,
I didn’t see many students like
me,” she says, meaning black.
Gresham also wants to be far-
ther from home.
While some make the case
that college is not for all students,
Bartley says Franklin has made
it part of their high school cul-
ture because in Oregon and na-
tionally, a college education has
become a direct indicator of
earning potential.
“While life isn’t all about mon-
ey, we need to prepare our chil-
dren with the skills they need to
be successful in real life,” Bartley
says.
For many, she adds, college is
“a doorway into a kind of finan-
cial stability that they have never
experienced before; even at age
18, they realize that attending
will impact future generations.”
It was that line of thinking that
prompted senior Yussef Sheikh-
nur, 17, to change course after
coming to Franklin two years
ago from the shuttered Marshall
Campus.
Hewas a different person then:
“I knewIwasn’t going togo to col-
lege,” says Sheikhnur, who was
born in the U.S. to parents who
came from Somalia. “I was into
the wrong things; I wasn’t doing
what my parents toldme to do.”
He was barely passing his
classes, until one day Bartley
andVaughn-Edmonds convinced
him to sign up for AP English
class.
Along the way, he retook five
or six of his classes to get back on
track, through summer and
night school. And he changed his
mind about college, applying to
Western Oregon University and
PSU.
He thinks he’ll go with PSU,
since they have an African Stud-
ies program he’d like to pursue.
“I can be the first in my family to
go to college,” Sheikhnur says. “I
want to try to help my commu-
nity; be a leader.”
Shatanya Banks, 17, and Re-
becca Sanford, 18, bothAdvanced
Scholars, will also be first-gener-
ation college students.
Banks has been driven since a
young age, since her ownmother
had her at age 16 and struggled
to raise her on her own. “I told
myself I would succeed,” says
Banks, who’s beenworking after-
school jobs since her sophomore
year to help pay for college.
She wants to go to medical
school to be an ob-gyn and is
waiting until the final financial
aid packages roll in until she de-
cides betweenConcordiaUniver-
sity, PSU, University of Portland
and George Fox University.
Sanford, who wants to study
mechanical engineering, has
been accepted to 10 of the 15 col-
leges she’s applied to. “I want to
go to Whitman (College), but it’s
so much money,” she says. “I’m
basically just trying to go to any
school where I can stay under
$10,000 per year. My dad is still
paying off his loans.”
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TRIBUNE PHOTOS: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT
Susan Anglada Bartley, AP English teacher at Franklin High School, and senior Christopher McBee, left, work
on updating their “wall of success.”
Franklin senior Paris Gresham is one of 400 students participating in
the school’s Advanced Scholars Program, 66 of whom will graduate
this spring. The college-prep program is unique in the school district
and could be a model for the state.
“It really has
pivoted Franklin
to this culture of
smartness.”
— Holly Vaughn-
Edmonds,
Franklin counselor
PDX
UPDATE
City budget deficit
shrinks
Portland’s projected budget
gap has shrunk a bit, easing the
amount of cuts needed to bal-
ance the city’s 2013-14 budget.
The shortfall is projected to
be about $21.5 million, down
from the previous estimate of
$25 million, according to city
economist Josh Harwood.
Lower-than-expected infla-
tion reduced the level of cost-of-
living adjustments, or COLAs,
to be paid to city employees.
Health care premiums also are
lower than expected. And the
turnround in the real estate
market is driving up property
taxes.
The City Budget Office will
release a more complete fore-
cast of expected city revenues
at the end of April. That will be
used by Mayor Charlie Hales to
craft a recommended budget by
early May.
— Steve Law
Schnitzer tackles
Centennial Mills
Developer Jordan Schnitzer
and his team at Harsch Invest-
ment Properties will take a
crack at redeveloping the Cen-
tennial Mills property on the
Willamette riverfront.
The Portland Development
Commission approved a $350,000
loan to Harsch on Tuesday to do
“predevelopment” work at the
Pearl District site, which means
analyzing the project’s financial
potential and preparing prelimi-
nary designs.
PDC acquired the 4.7-acre site
on 1362 N.W. Naito Parkway in
2000, but a series of proposals
for redevelopment have fizzled
since then. Much of the property
is in disrepair and is considered
quite costly to refurbish.
The city redevelopment agen-
cywants to see Centennial Mills
transformed to host “cluster in-
dustry/traded sector employ-
ment,” which refers to targeted
industries like footwear, soft-
ware and clean energy that the
city is courting and having suc-
cess attracting. In addition, the
city’s plan for Centennial Mills
includes retail space, arts-relat-
ed attractions, multifamily
housing and 295 parking spaces.
Schnitzer told the PDC that
he was passionate about restor-
ing the site. PDC commissioner
Steven Strauss expressed con-
cern about the loan to Harsch,
citing fears that costs of the ulti-
mate project would be more
than the PDC can afford.
— Steve Law