Duniway,
You spoke loud and clear at the Principal's Coffee and City Hall listened. City Councilor Mitch Green just introduced the Save Public Schools Resolution, which calls for stopping PPS closures and fixing school funding. Your advocacy helped make it happen. Now let's help it pass.
Email our city councilors by noon Tuesday (10/27). The council votes Wednesday, October 28.
Send a short note to all three District 4 councilors:
Councilor.Green@
Councilor.Clark@
Councilor.Zimmerman@
Copy and paste:
I am a constituent in District 4. Please vote yes on the Save Public Schools Resolution on October 28. Closures should be a last resort and our schools need the city standing with them.
Thank you,
[Name, school]
Read the resolution, or find your councilors if you live outside District 4: https://www.portland.gov/
Contact Governor Kotek by end of day Tuesday (10/27)
Oregon's Education Stability Fund is the state's $1 billion rainy day fund for schools. Demand the governor to use it. Send a message at https://www.oregon.gov/gov/
Copy and paste:
Governor Kotek, I'm a Portland Public Schools parent. I urge you to declare an education emergency and release the State Education Stability Fund so no Oregon school closes while we work with the city, the unions, state lawmakers and parent advocates on stable, sustainable school funding.
Thank you,
[Name, City]
Two emails and five minutes can help keep our schools open so we can solve the real problem a the city and state level. We can do this.
In solidarity with our children and our public schools,
Your Duniway Advocacy Committee