We, the BSD community have some requests for who is hired as our next superintendent.
The Beaverton School Board
Right now the Beaverton school board is looking for a new superintendent to lead our district. As students, parents, educators, neighbors, voters, and tax payers, this is an important juncture. We’ve got to speak up about what we want for the future of our schools.
More than ever before, our students need someone who will safeguard our schools, student well-being, special education, diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are serious about our schools; keeping them open and public, disrupting racism and the school-prison pipeline, avoiding strikes, and district decision-makers truly listening to the community.
We deserve to be heard. These are
Our children,
Our tax dollars,
Our communities,
Our schools.
This petition will be delivered to the Beaverton School Board as soon as possible in order to help them in their active search for a new superintendent.
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To:
The Beaverton School Board
From:
[Your Name]
As students, family members, tax payers, voters, and neighbors, we request that the Beaverton School Board hire only a superintendent who meets these requirements:
1. Willing to do the job for less than $300,000 per year. (The mayor of Portland makes $175,463!) Our last superintendent made $500,000, all while our schools are underfunded and our educators and support staff are scraping by.
2. Fiercely pro-public schools, fighting to keep them open. We do not want someone who is affiliated with organizations that are pro-charter and privatization including Chiefs for Change, Northwest Evaluation Association, Council of Great City Schools, and Teach for America.
3. Has worked in BSD schools. We have an abundance of administrators right here in Beaverton, who are familiar with our strengths and challenges and invested in our communities' well-being.
4. Does not shy away from real community engagement. We need someone who encourages the school board to visit schools on their own and to regularly meet with union leadership and the public. Our last superintendent required school board members to have a chaperone when visiting schools.
5. Has worked to disrupt the school-prison pipeline and racism in schools and prioritizes increasing support for special education. When our school district is run like a corporation (touting Forbes trophies!), no wonder our marginalized students and families suffer.
You are our elected officials. Show us that you hear us. We are talking about
Our children,
Our tax dollars,
Our communities,
Our schools.