Portland Public Schools parents from North and Northeast Portland on Monday pushed for specifics about the academic and enrichment programming that will be available to their children as the district prepares to rewrite attendance zones to boost enrollment at Jefferson High School.

About 85 people came to Ockley Green Middle School for the first in a planned series of forums over the next two weeks. The district’s goal is to both explain and answer questions about the district’s plans to soon phase out dual enrollment zones, which have since 2013 allowed families to choose whether their child would attend Jefferson or one of three other high schools — Grant, Roosevelt or McDaniel — depending upon their address.

The urgency comes as Jefferson prepares for a $465 million modernization t

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