Portland school board: next wave

The new board hired Superintendent Vicki Phillips, helped fend off the repeal of the county's income tax, oversaw a new labor contract with teachers and launched the much-needed review of the district's central office.

What? Do you mean the contract has been reduced to writing? I have not yet received my copy of the Collective Bargaining Agreement to which you refer. I made a public records request the day after was considered approved by the Portland Public School Board. They did not reduce it to writing, as required by state law, apparently.

Thus, there is no agreement at all, it was a big political joke, don't you know . . to influence the November Election. They still do not have a valid contract. Oh well, this is perhaps only relevant to whether or not I can demand that the Oregon Employment Relations Board accept a petition to clarify whether tier-three PERS members no longer share a sufficient "community of interest" with their tier-one counterparts . . due to the pension disparity.

Everyone knows., or ought to by know, that the OEA and PAT has forsaken all teachers except for the tier-one PERS members.

Hey, even TED says fire 1000 to 2000 teachers (he means fire, or not hire, the tier-three teachers).

If I ran . . . the OEA would do everything short of filling me with lead. Would you, The Oregonian, support me in my drive to keep the schools open and hire lots of new first-time teachers? You once ran an editorial, long ago, that said the remedy was more trained teachers. Do you still believe that to be the case? More trained teachers?