Portland Public School Superintendent, Guadalupe Guerrero wants to leave?
L.A. Unified Public School District-Flush with Billions of Coronavirus Dollars and Declining Enrollment lists Guerrero as a job applicant
The L.A. Unified School District will decide on their new superintendent by the end of the year. Awaiting a response from PPS Communications:
- Did Guerrero inform the Portland Public School Board he applied for a superintendent position in LA?
- When did Guerrero decide he wanted to leave? Why does he want to leave?
For Oregonians in Portland, the seemingly endless nightmare of violence, shutdowns, masking, not allowing parents into school buildings, the secrets, then the recent attempts to force by manipulation, propaganda, and pressure, the injection of children with chemicals, Portland parents and the public had enough and actively fought back to protect their children. They showed up at board meetings and worked to educate them, the superintendent, and his administrative staff on the law. There is no mask law in Oregon.
Northwest Observer’s public records request of Governor Brown regarding Emergency Law ORS 401.165 (5) on October 23, 2021, resulted in no record of the governor addressing the emergency law via her email communications, regarding the law she violated since March 8, 2020. Administrative rules cannot violate law.
Some audience observers at school board meetings assessed the superintendent and his administrative staff seemed to be the bosses of the elected PPS directors, rather than the other way around. Some school districts in Oregon with newly elected school board directors, a handful of superintendents were fired for masking up children. It was noted superintendents and PPS administrative staff did not research Oregon law and were not interested in discussing Oregon law. More Oregonians and Washingtonians have now learned that rules cannot violate law.
The firing of a handful of Oregon superintendents caused unelected various public school superintendent groups to plan a move to pressure the legislature to take away the power of the elected public school board directors, to keep it in the hands of the unelected superintendents and their administrative staff.
Northwest Observer reported on that development November 8, 2021.
https://northwestobserver.com/index.php?ArticleId=1811
Jim Green, executive director at Oregon School Boards Association said in November, “No one thought you’d be fired for following the law.” Krista Parent, Coalition of Oregon School Administrators, she is the coalition’s director of executive leadership. Parent made the same comment. Both did not identify as to which law they were referring.
Reviewing that association’s website, parents are not mentioned on the About COSA page.
Parents appear to not be a blip on the radar screen of the Oregon public school systems, of teacher unions’ leadership, Coalition of Oregon School Administrators, superintendents, public school administrators and teachers.
COSA, with its 2400 school administrator membership, has fired up their lobbying team effort to pressure legislators in Salem, to make a law in January 2022, to take away voters’ rights to elect public school board directors whose duties include hiring and firing superintendents.
Concerns of water contamination, heating, and cooling problems, at the newly built 2016 Roosevelt High School, recently reported on by Truth in the Pacific Northwest on December 2, 2021, looks to be the start of getting information out, information that has been hidden from parents, students, the public and the media for some time.
https://truthinthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2021/12/roosevelt-high-schools-contaminated.html
Sources inside PPS, with expertise in matters of plumbing and heat exchangers, assess the failure at Roosevelt started from the first day the $54 million high school opened, and that a flurry of contractors have not corrected the problem.
The heat exchanger is what keeps schools hot, cold or at just the right temperature. Water contained in that system is supposed to stay inside that closed system as the closed system also has an ingredient commonly found in anti-freeze, which is glycol, and it’s on a list of substances that must be reported if a problem is found.
From a number of PPS employees who genuinely care about the students, they want the information out to the parents and the students that the system, likely, has been leaking from the heat exchanger that is supposed to be a closed system, and the leaking goes into the drinking water and cooking faucet systems in Roosevelt High School. There has been no further follow up from the PPS administration as to what the water that was sent to a lab for testing in November shows.
Because the heat exchanger is leaking since 2016, maintenance comes weekly to pour hundreds of gallons of water into that heat exchanger. The water in the heat exchanger is a closed system or is supposed to be, but that system has failed.
Rather than trying to hide the problem, rather than trying to silence PPS employees who genuinely care, the most dutiful action the Portland Public School Board, the Superintendent and the PPS administrative staff can do is be transparent and fix the problem.
PPS may have a quality control problem.
It would behoove the PPS board of directors to start their investigation by interviewing Brian Taylor, director of Portland Public School Maintenance, Patrick Stevens, manager of Contractors and the new manager of Plumbing, Tony Santiago. It was reported Santiago was yelled at for a length of time after asking a question at a staff meeting on December 2, 2021. Santiago was not at work the next day.
PPS board has an opportunity here to move forward in new demonstration of leadership, by instituting a team approach with transparency to parents and students, then for the superintendent to spread that same kind of new energy, make it a norm, down the chain of command to and through the administrative staff, down to the teacher and other school employees levels, and turn this sinking ship around.
There are PPS staff who genuinely care about students, students' parents; PPS employees who have skills, have integrity, who spoke up, who put their jobs in jeopardy because they do not want anyone hurt and they especially do not want children hurt.
As Jesus said, "The Truth will set you free." Let the secrets out, let the Truth out.
December 6, 2021
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