Newly-elected Portland school board members means more diversity and representation
One board member said this is the first time ever that there will be three Black members on the Portland school board of eight. Author: Christine Pitawanich Updated: 7:45 PM PDT May 20, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. School board races in the area have received a lot of attention this year, especially in regards to diversity and representation.
The school board for the state s largest district, Portland Public Schools, just got a lot more diverse.
Three school board positions were up for grabs. Julia Brim-Edwards was re-elected, but there were two newcomers: Gary Hollands and Herman Greene.
Outdoor learning at Golestan School in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Photo courtesy of Golestan Education.
As many Americans adjust to life at home, exploring backyard yoga classes and telecommuting to work while their children flitter through the background disrupting Zoom meetings, the schools responsible for those children are likewise adapting to the constraints and demands of in-person instruction. In the midst of a pandemic that has fundamentally altered the physical spaces for learning a generation of students is coming to view as a “new normal,” the architecture of education echoes many changes the rest of society has undertaken since the crisis began last March.
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Greene, Hollands, Brim-Edwards glide to victory in Portland school board races
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The Portland school board will seat two new members in July and, for the first time in its history, concurrently count three Black members among its ranks.
Herman Greene won the four-way Zone 4 race Tuesday, claiming 73% of the vote according to partial returns as of 8 p.m. In Zone 5, Gary Hollands held 83%.
Julia Brim-Edwards, the lone incumbent seeking reelection, won a second consecutive term representing Zone 6 with 80% of the vote according to the preliminary results. Brim-Edwards first served from 2001 to 2005 before returning to the Portland school board in 2017.
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FILE - In this March 27, 2020, file photo, a worker, wearing a protective mask against the coronavirus, stocks produce before the opening of Gus s Community Market in San Francisco. Grocery workers across the globe have worked the front lines during lockdowns meant to keep the coronavirus from spreading. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)AP
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Andrea Valderrama and Rob Nosse
Valderrama represents District 47-outer East Portland in the Oregon House. Nosse represents District 42-Southeast Portland in the Oregon House. Both are Democrats.
For the last 13 months amid a global pandemic, a national reckoning with racism and extreme wildfires, Oregon’s essential workers masked up, did their jobs and got us through all these emergencies. They kept services and essential retail running, hospitals staffed and the economy moving forward often at great risk to their own personal safety and their fami