Portland Public Schools' overall on-time graduation rate rose 5 points from the previous year to 59 percent in 2011, according to data released by the Oregon Department of Education.

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PORTLAND, Ore. - Most local residents hoping to get a phone call or text message Thursday morning during a city-wide test of an emergency notification system got nothing, a spokesman for the department conducting the test said Thursday afternoon.

Randy Neves, spokesman for the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM), said that while the test was still technically ongoing Thursday afternoon, he was calling the results so far "a failure."

Neves said only 2,100 of the 317,000 people who signed up for a phone call or text message from the system actually got a notification and apparently no one outside the city limits received a message.

The system is designed to send out information during a natural disaster or other large-scale emergency. It should send information to people with a home phone or who are signed up to receive a call or text message on their mobile phone.

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