College-bound Portland students worry about catching up after lost class time

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North Portland’s Jefferson High School campus was quiet on a recent weekday afternoon. No chatter from students or teachers. No parents dropping off or picking up their kids from school. But just across North Killingsworth St., at Portland Community College’s Cascade campus, some Jefferson students were still going to and from class. Sixteen-year-old junior Roman Radecki was one of them.

“It’s been ‘no school November,’” Radecki, who was just getting out of a two-hour PCC Comms 100 class, said. “That’s what people always call November because there’s a lot of days off. But now we literally haven’t been in school.”

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