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PPU Disclaimer

PPU always actively seeks a diversity of viewpoints and actions around education, pertinent information, services, support advocacy, and current events affecting our families. Opinions expressed from our website blog partners, constituents, peers, affiliates, other parent union models, articles we posted, others' comments we posted or community partners, are for awareness, educational and training purposes and are not necessarily intended to represent PPU but to represent the subjects of the reports that solidifies the views of PPU. We do search to find that information that will align with PPU's convictions/beliefs. We are in full agreement with most everything that is posted on this report! We do agree that the views are the authors' views and we align ourselves with their information and Yes the views expressed in this article are the authors' own but also may or may not necessarily reflect Portland Parent Union's Stance except where PPU is the author.

When we say Portland Public Schools (PPS) it is directed at those who claimed they are interested in reducing the disparities. Those we are working with and have worked with on the Portland Public School Board.

THIS report claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. There will always be a link to where the picture came from. Unless it is stock pictures or our own. Most images on this report are linked to its respectful owners of the articles the pictures represent.

This format is similar to a power-point or a vertical blog/news setting, as well as reflecting a timeline. This report includes a right side navigator menu to take you from category to category. The page menu is at the top.

Credits go to Our Partners: Dignity In Schools, Parents Across America Oregon, The Letter, Journey For Justice, Movement for Black Lives, Unite Oregon, our Board Members: Ronald, Tereza, Richard, CaShawn, Deb, Susan, Pedro, and Mercedes (not on the board but a respected teacher in our community.) News Channels, Videos, Public Announcements, and Newspapers: Washington Post, OPB, CNN, CNBC ABC, New York Times's Katie Riley, Education Week, the Atlantic Graeme Wood, McKinsey Report, Pew Research Center, Library of Congress, Henry Giroux, W.E.B. Dubois,VOX.com, Marshall Project, CNN, KGW, Angela Rye, Will Smith, Wikipedia, The Guardian's Kenya Evelyn, *Achieve3000 (we agree with this assessment but don't know much about the program to support it), Power Director, *Revolution Newspaper, Ben Garvin + KARE 11, Associated Press, Stephen J. Fowler, Minneapolis City Council, Portland City Council, BC Democrat Indiana-Abdul Hakim-Shabazz, Oregon Health Authority, Tafari Melisizwe, Khalil Mohammed, Nkenge Harmon-Johnson Portland Urban League, Senator Lew Frederick, and Sheila Washington Warren, Portland Parent Union

Portland Parent Union Statement

"Gathering The Information"

Started June 11, 2020

from Portland Parent Union, Dignity In Schools,

PPU Members and PPU Partners about Virtual Pushout, COVID/Social Distancing, Mapping, Summary, Videos, Hisory, Murder of a Black Man, Defund the Police, Police in Schools as well as Story Telling and Opinion Pieces. + Data and Stats.

You may Go to Portland Parent Union's Main Statement First if You would like.

History

A Red Asterik Beside a Credit means we support the comment we posted but either disagree with the overall philosophy or don't know much about programs

Click on each Subject Title to go to that article and link of the Complete Report.

Portland Parent Union

Counselors Not Cops/History + Opinion Pieces and Data

The U.S. Department of Education recently required every public school to report the number of social workers, nurses, and psychologists employed for the first time in history. Data about school counselors had been required previously.

Schools need counselors, not guns -- and 6 other key things Trump’s safety commission did not seriously address

Portland Parent Union

Our Mission is to organize Parents for better outcomes by enriching them through support, information and education. We are dedicated to parents: to involve their families, to anticipate their challenges and help them
to take advantage of opportunities to guarantee a successful student. We are dedicated to the Parent's development of leadership skills, knowledge and responsibility.

This is what we need! A parent’s union. Never, ever thought I would be saying that. Perhaps we have been using the wrong language … everyone in education understands what a union is and how it works. Love it! Exactly, parents and teachers working together and we stop the divide and conquer tactics used by soooooo many governments. Click below to learn more or read an excerpt below.

We are the FAMILIES fed up with the racism, push out, so called achievement gap and exclusion within our education institutions.

We are families who will demand our rights for our children to get the education they deserve. We will take our place as experts of our children back. We will model the strength and tenacity of a strong father/mother/grandparent/guardian who does not give up.

These are our children- pushed out excluded, labeled, profiled, hurting and marginalized… Some have no hope. Through our efforts we will restore that hope.

We will do this with our love, support, education, engagement, mentoring and sometimes even with tough love.

We will take full responsibility along with accountability to galvanize, organize, and strategize the families.

Our goal is to rejuvenate our Family community/families through diverse methods as mentioned above.

Our Vision is to see transformed quality of life within our school communities. Our families will be whole again and the achievement gap closed.

PARENT POWER

The Letter/PPU Report 2020

This is a Special Report "We interrupted the launching of the report called "The Letter" for breaking news" The Letter is the the Catalyst for our report this year but has been diverted to This Special Breaking News Report.
"The Letter" is mentioned here as a Secondary Report until this report
is submitted in the next few months. Stay tuned!

Organizing for school reform offers an urgently needed alternative to traditional approaches to school reform. While many current reforms are innovative, they often fail to thrive due to lack of trust, understanding, or cultural relevance to the community being targeted by the reform (Oakes & Rogers 2006; Payne 2008). The high turnover of reformers (superintendents, principals, or outside organizations) in high-need schools and districts is another major cause of school reform failure (Mintrop & Sunderman 2009). Finally, reforms also fail because they do not address extreme inequities in resources and empowerment between poor communities and their more privileged counterparts (Oakes & Rogers 2006; Renée, Welner & Oakes 2010).

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The Letter

What is COVID Doing to Us. How is it Changing Our Lives?

A subway rider wears a mask and a bandana to protect himself against COVID-19 in New York on April 7, 2020 [AP/Bebeto Matthews] History has shown us that the consequences of contagion are not equally felt by all communities.

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Oregon COVID Updates

Distance Learning COVID Pushout Impacts on Parents/Students

COVID Online Distance Learning Pushout

Grid

Statement From Susan Anglada Bartley PPU Partner and a Voracious but Loving Community Activist as well as an award winning Teacher.

Statement From Richard Gilliam PPU Board Member. He is an Esteemed Community Organizer

Make Some Noise Statement by Deb Mayer / Our Amazing Partner and President of Parents Across America Oregon

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The Thought Provoking Quote posted by CaShawn Edwards on FB. Author Unknown? CaShawn is our Dear PPU Vice President and An Amazing Parent

Statement From

Pedro Anglada

Cordero.

An award winning

dedicated Social

Worker

Public schools.

He is also featured in the Online Learning "Pushout". Grid as well.

New National Online Learning Study Predicts Widening Achievement Gap

Achievement Gap

PPU Opinion Statement

COVID

Switching

Data/Stat

Win Win

Terrorizing Students

Parkland Shooting

CC Recommendations

Defund the Police

Are We Protesting For the Right Reasons and Are We Getting Along?

Killin The Silence

Coronavirus and Schools

The coronavirus pandemic has upended America's K-12 education system, as most schools in every state close their doors for extended periods to combat the spread of the virus.

Tereza T. Bottman

PPU Teacher Advisory Board Statement.

She is A beloved ESL/ELL Teacher on Special Assignment

We are Portland Parent Union.

It is important for us to research, compile and record information showing evidence of negative events +++ that are further corroding our black families'/poor families' lifestyles from those who are not for us and are continually altering the ability for families to thrive.

This is PPU recording our "Statements", opinions, news, and observations, on and against these negative groups, controls, opinions, and events! Proof must be written down.

#wemustrevealissues

togetbetter

#blacklivesmatter

#counselorsnotcops

#ican'tbreath

#distancelearning

pushout

#defundpolicedept.

#trustcirclesarekey

#100%covid19testing

beforeopenschools

#gratefulforourpartners

Grid on Online Learning

Go To Mapping of Police Brutality and Murder

of black Men and Women

Ben Garvin Artist

Summing It Up

The Black Community Cannot Wait Any longer. For years, Black activists and organizations like the Movement for Black Lives have been calling for the reckoning we now see in the streets, and we have a responsibility as a nation to meet their call.

Ibram X. Kendi

"Being an Anti-racists requires persistent self-criticism and regular self-examination."

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Intro.

Disclaimer

Summary

Capturing Our Four Major Issues.

Police Murder
COVID
Education Achievement Gap.
Police in Schools

Database of Oregon Police Misconduct up & running. The state legislature required the public, online database be set-up. It's one of several police account ability bills passed during the special sessions.

Summing It Up with Will Smith and Angela Rye PPU approved

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Portland City Council has approved a budget for the upcoming fiscal year that will cut an additional $15 million from the police bureau’s budget, but falls short of the $50 million cut that community advocates had been pushing for. Thank you Susan and Pedro, ( PPU partners and Social Justice advocates) for speaking.

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SUMMING IT UP

we found this video the best at summing it up by two of our favorite people.

Peace and Love is Here!

Portland Parent Union

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How racist policing took over American cities, explained by a historian

“The problem is the way policing was built,” historian Khalil Muhammad says.

“THE SAME BASIC IDEA THAT IN WHITE SPACES, BLACK PEOPLE ARE PRESUMPTIVELY SUSPECT, IS STILL PLAYING OUT IN AMERICA TODAY"

For Your information

Picture represents https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/opinion/sex-differences-covid.html

The Portland Association of Teachers is signaling that unless school

leaders and politicians can come up with a plan to stop the virus, educators do not feel it’s safe to return to the classroom this fall.

INSPIRATION

Fueled by protests, school districts across the country cut ties with police

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/06/07/minneapolis-city-council-intent-to-disband-police-department-nr-vpx.cnn

Minneapolis City Council advances plan to dismantle embattled police force.

Portland Parent Union's Statement Against Police, School Pushout, Police Violence and Murder, Partners Statements + Recommendations and Demands

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Map: Coronavirus and School Closures

Oregon legislators appeared to reach consensus Thursday on a package of police accountability bills aimed at changing the culture of law enforcement in the state, though some provisions only survived with major tweaks.

POLITICS

Activists: Police reform bills passed in Oregon's special session are just the start

Six bills tied to police reform were passed during last week's special session. Activists and some lawmakers say it's just the beginning of long-awaited change

Community Activists Statements

Police Accuntablity

Police Transformation Demands Defund the Police

Current Action

Columbine

Counselors N Cops Timeline, Data, Real Stories, Negative Driven Decisions, Evidence of Zero Tolerence which started the School to Prison Pipeline/Pushout/ChildCrimalization

(Added On October 17, 2020) PPU Statement on Re-Opening Schools

PPU Against Brutality

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PPU Members and PPU Partners about Virtual Pushout, COVID/Social Distancing, Mapping, Summary, Videos, Hisory, Murder of a Black Man, Defund the Police, Police in Schools as well as Story Telling and Opinion Pieces. + Data and Stats.

The U.S. Department of Education recently required every public school to report the number of social workers, nurses, and psychologists employed for the first time in history. Data about school counselors had been required previously.

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Statement From Richard Gilliam PPU Board Member. He is an Esteemed Community Organizer

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Make Some Noise Statement by Deb Mayer / Our Amazing Partner and President of Parents Across America Oregon

The Thought Provoking Quote posted by CaShawn Edwards on FB. Author Unknown? CaShawn is our Dear PPU Vice President and An Amazing Parent

The coronavirus pandemic has upended America's K-12 education system, as most schools in every state close their doors for extended periods to combat the spread of the virus.

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#wemustrevealissues

togetbetter

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Go To Mapping of Police Brutality and Murder

of black Men and Women

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Ben Garvin Artist

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The Black Community Cannot Wait Any longer. For years, Black activists and organizations like the Movement for Black Lives have been calling for the reckoning we now see in the streets, and we have a responsibility as a nation to meet their call.

Database of Oregon Police Misconduct up & running. The state legislature required the public, online database be set-up. It's one of several police account ability bills passed during the special sessions.

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Minneapolis City Council advances plan to dismantle embattled police force.

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Oregon legislators appeared to reach consensus Thursday on a package of police accountability bills aimed at changing the culture of law enforcement in the state, though some provisions only survived with major tweaks.

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