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Board hears update on superintendent search
7/13/2017The new PPS Board of Education held its first regular meeting Tuesday to discuss the search for a permanent superintendent and hear from a community group about the future of Tubman Middle School.
Director Rita Moore reported that the Superintendent Recruitment Task Force is one step closer to selecting finalists for the open superintendent position.
Over the past two months, the task force has reviewed and narrowed a pool of 40 community-nominated candidates down to seven. The task force hopes to find a candidate who is a capable communicator and team-builder who has experience working in a diverse urban school environment; has experience as a teacher, principal and district-level leader; and who believes in educating the whole child.
A group of five leaders within Portland's African American community asked the board to consider holding spaces open at the new Tubman Middle School, slated to open in 2018, for families who have been displaced out of the neighborhood because of gentrification.
Tony Hopson, President of Self Enhancement, Inc. , told the board he helped convene a group of 200 African-American men in response to recent racial violence and hate incidents in Portland. The group concluded that there are specific steps that the community, including PPS, can take to combat displacement and other inequities.
Among their proposals is an open enrollment model for Tubman. The board agreed to begin discussions with the group on that proposal.
The Board also heard from the President of the Portland Association of Teachers, Suzanne Cohen. Portland Public Schools is currently in the middle of contract negotiations with the union group for PPS' more than 4,000 teachers. Dozens of teachers attended the meeting to encourage the Board to resolve contract negotiations before the end of the summer.
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