Date: 01/27/2015 04:00 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A U.S. Department of Education report shows Oregon’s 69 percent graduation rate for the class of 2013 was worst among the 49 states able to calculate their rates in the way required by the federal government. State education officials acknowledge rates are too low. But they say definitions and requirements aren’t identical from state to state, so comparisons should be made with caution.
CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. (AP) – The Swiss multinational Nestle and the Columbia Gorge town Cascade Locks are trying a new strategy in their attempt to set up a plant to bottle water from a local spring. The company wants the state government to trade its legal right to some water from Oxbow Springs – something the state wasn’t going to do when Nestle proposed the deal in 2008.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The University of Oregon has sternly warned a professor not to allow further disclosures of confidential documents from the school’s presidential office, saying that would violate the teacher’s responsibility as a faculty member. The name of the faculty member was blacked out in the letter.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – An open house is scheduled Thursday for the new $84 million state psychiatric hospital at Junction City. It eventually will serve up to 174 patients with a staff of 330.
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