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PORTLAND PARENT UNION RECOMMENDATIONS

THE DSC MORATORIUM MOVEMENT                                              BEGINNINGS

CAMPAIGN: SOLUTIONS NOT SUSPENSIONS

 

PPU Recommends PPS place a moratorium on the practice of out of school suspensions and invest in support and resources for administrators, teachers and other educational staff to implement positive approaches to discipline. Schools should be a place for

young people to learn, not just about academics but also positive life-lessons learned both from their successes and mistakes. http://portlandparentunion.blogspot.com/


PPU Recommends PPS replace the PPS School Code with the DSC Model Code on Education and Dignity or some parts of it. 

https://www.nycourts.gov/ip/justiceforchildren/PDF/Mid-Hudson%20Summit/10%20P5.1%20SullivanYuknis%20PPT.pdf

This is what we asked for- featured with dignity in schools august 2014 (timeline). We started out with a trust circle.

LETTER-MARCH 2014  sent to all stakeholders

Portland Parent Union along with Dignity Schools are sending out a call for a Moratorium on School Pushout. PPS is already being intentional about eliminating the disparities. We are asking PPS to take it even further. Will you sit down with us and come up with a plan of what a Moratorium  could look like for Portland Public Schools.  We are asking PPS to be the first district in Oregon to support the Moratorium..

 

This release was sent in January (2014) with no response. Can we change our attitudes towards each other. Can we be intentional about respecting our marginalized families. To many times we have brought families to testify at the school board of their "pushout issues" with no followup. To many times we have sent invitations to come to People Celebrating People, a program that started ten years ago to bring together school administrators and the community to relationship build.  http://simplysheilas.wix.com/ppureportcard2ndpage#!school-board-email/b6s8i 

 

We are creating a trust circle for all to come and be a part of a much needed dialogue with our families, community members, PPS Administrators, Superintendent and School Board Members. This Event will be on Wednesday April 9, from 6-9 at Concordia University. More details when we confirm

the venue. This is a "Restorative Practice genre."

 

The Moratorium is just an accountability process, that education institutions are trying to come up with anyway. The great thing about this proposal is that it was written by those who are the most "impacted ones" here and across the country. http://www.dignityinschools.org/files/Model_Code_2013.pdf   

READ THE MORATORIUM INVITE LETTER

ALL MET WITH GOOD INTENTIONS AFTER TWO SCHOOL YEARS OF GOOD INTENTIONS WE HAVE SOME RESERVATIONS.  HERE ARE SOME THOUGHTS?

AN OUTLINE OF SUCCESSES AND FAILURES, EXPERIENCES, OBSERVATIONS AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE MRC/MORATORIUM PROCESS  see entire report in  Introduction, Who are we? Where Are We? 

Some of these Statements have links. The word link will be at the end of the statement if there is a link

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