Important Dates:

• Friday, August 23^rd – Class lists will be emailed to parents (1^st-5^th) – 4pm
• Saturday, August 24^th – Community Care Day – 9am-12pm
• Tuesday, August 27^th – Kinder Popsicle Social – 10am-11am
• Wednesday, August 28^th – FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL (1^st-5^th) – 8am
• Thursday, August 29^th – New Family Picnic – Portland Heights Park, 5:30pm-7pm
• Friday, August 30^th – Kindergarten class lists will be emailed to parents
• Monday, September 2^nd – NO SCHOOL – Labor Day
• Tuesday, September 3^rd – FIRST DAY FOR KINDERGARTEN – 8am

  Please read the following updates:

• School officially begins at 8:00 AM and the tardy bell rings at 8:05 AM. School ends at 2:15 PM. Please pick up students at The Annex, classrooms or in front of the main school building.
• Drop-off for families will still be at 7:30 AM in the gym (Kinder) auditorium (1^st,2^nd,3^rd) and cafeteria (4^th, 5^th). Families are welcome to accompany their children to school, the Annex, and classrooms. Just be careful of traffic and early morning commuters. Classroom doors will open at 8:00 AM.
• First Day of Kindergarten is Tuesday, September 3^rd.
• Kindergarten students will now gather in the gym out of the weather, etc. Children may also be dropped off here beginning at 7:30 AM.
• The “Boo-Hoo Breakfast” for kindergarten families will be in the cafeteria at 8:00 AM.  You are welcome to attend if you would like.
• The Portland Water Bureau may be completing work on Elm St. This may impact our designated car drop-off area. Please be aware.
• Class lists will be coming out Friday, August 23^rd.  

NOTE: As of June 19, student G Suite for Education accounts will be updated from [username]@apps4pps.net to [username]@student.pps.net district-wide.

The Portland Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to extend PPS Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero's current contract by another two years during its Tuesday, June 25 meeting. Since he will be entering the third year of his original contract, the Board has committed to a total of five years through June 2022 with Guerrero at the helm. The approval came after board members offered a comprehensively positive review of his performance.

A public hearing will be held by the Tax Supervising and Conservation Commission on the budget approved by the Budget Committee for Portland Public School District 1J, Multnomah County, Oregon for the fiscal year July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020. The hearing will be held in the Board Auditorium at the Blanchard Education Service Center (BESC), 501 North Dixon Street, Portland, Oregon, on the 25th day of June at 3 p.m.

Dear Colleagues,