Educators working at community colleges want to be prioritized the same as pre-school and K-12 employees in the COVID-19 vaccination distribution plan. The Oregon Education Association is circulating a petition. Community College employees want to be added to the "education priority group" for COVID-19 vaccination distribution. They say it's already been approved of nationally and 20 states have included higher Ed instructors in vaccine priority groups. Credit Oregon Education Association, We Are Teachers The petition asks Governor Kate Brown and the COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Task Force to add higher ed employees to the states’ “education priority groups” for vaccination. Brown has moved to allow those education priority groups to begin receiving shots on January 25th.