The Portland Association of Teachers is demanding adequate investments in students, schools and educators.
“We are making history in Portland today,” Portland Association of Teachers president Angela Bonilla said at a Wednesday afternoon rally outside Roosevelt High School in North Portland’s St. Johns neighborhood.
Bonilla noted teachers working as many as 20 unpaid hours a week to keep up with workloads, schools unable to sufficiently serve students’ mental health needs, and the district’s crowded classrooms — which sometimes don’t have enough desks — as causes for the strike.during which district and union leaders were unable to agree on even basic budget realities. How long the strike might last is unknown, though sources have pegged the likely duration as three days to two weeks.
PPS — and Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat endorsed by PAT — say the district can’t afford the union’s demands, citing, among other constraints, a state law limiting its power to increase school taxes.that she has 34 students — and rats — in her classroom. Although Doris has a master’s degree, she recently moved in with a roommate because she can’t afford to rent on her own in the neighborhood.
Portland families, educators, and community supporters are coming together to demand the investment schools need to be the learning environments students deserve. Let’s go!Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, flew in from Philadelphia to stand in solidarity with the striking Portland teachers,the crowd at Roosevelt High School Wednesday that she knows what PAT educators are fighting for, “because that’s what all teachers are fighting for all across the country.
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