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Kyron Horman: Timeline of events since boy's disappearance | OregonLive.com

Kyron Horman: Timeline of events since boy's disappearance

Published: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 1:10 PM Updated: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 3:52 PM

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Kyron Horman went missing Friday, June 4.

The following is a timeline of events. The Oregonian's reporters and editors will adjust this account over time to add and adjust information.

Searchers have declined to provide some details of the investigation, including when school officials marked Kyron Horman absent on June 4. Here's a basic look at what happened on the day the second-grader disappeared from Skyline School and the following days:

Friday, June 4

8 a.m. Skyline Elementary, 11536 N.W. Skyline Blvd., opens early so students and parents can tour the science fair. A billboard outside reads: "June 4, I.B. Inquiry Expo, 8-10, Talent show, 1-2:45." Kyron was to take part in both the expo/science fair and the talent show.

Terri Moulton Horman arrives shortly afterward with her stepson, Kyron.

8:15 a.m. Gina Zimmerman, president of the school PTA, arrives and sees Kyron with his stepmother in front of his exhibit.

8:45 a.m. Terri Horman leaves after watching Kyron walk toward his classroom after touring the science fair.

9 a.m. Someone reports seeing Kyron at the school, but investigators won't say who or where. It's the last time anyone remembers seeing the boy.

10 a.m. Classes begin.

At some point, Kyron's homeroom teacher, Kristina Porter, reports him absent.

A photo posted on his stepmother's Facebook page shows Kyron Horman in front of his science fair project, wearing the "CSI" T-shirt he was last seen in.

1:21 p.m. Terri Horman posts photos of Kyron at the science fair on her Facebook page.

3:30 p.m. Terri Horman goes to meet the school bus and discovers that Kyron has been absent all day. She calls 9-1-1.

3:45 p.m. Search begins.

5:30 p.m. Rapid broadcast message from Portland Public Schools goes out to alert families of a missing student. The message: "Kyron Hormon did not arrive at home today." It was broadcast to the phones of parents across the school district.

7 p.m. Multnomah County sheriff's Detective Sergeant Lee Gosson alerts Sgt. Travis Gullberg, the county's on-call coordinator for search-and-rescue efforts, to the need to begin a formal missing persons search for Kyron. Later, the FBI's Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team is dispatched.

8:15 p.m. The Oregonian receives an e-mailed photo of Kyron from Multnomah County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Lt. Mary Lindstrand, provided by Skyline School secretary Sharon Hall.

Saturday, June 5

5 a.m. Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue receives a call from Multnomah County. When they

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Published: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 3:59 PM Updated: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 4:00 PM

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How to fund teacher pay model

Gregory McGinity

Senior Director of Policy, Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Yes, the new D.C. contract has the elements necessary to position Washington D.C. to achieve higher levels of student and teacher performance, for all the reasons listed by Weisberg, Klein and others. This is why we are supporting it with funds. But there seems to be much skepticism regarding whether the model can be similarly funded and sustained in other cities. We think it can, through an all-important route that hasn’t yet been discussed.

Here is how.

Beyond the obvious sources of potential funding for performance-based compensation and higher teacher salaries, like federal funding, tax levies (Denver levied a parcel tax in order to fund teacher bonuses) and philanthropic dollars, school district central offices can also free up substantial existing funds.

How? By simply becoming efficient organizations with lower overhead,

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