🙏🏽 Thank you @reap_inc for hosting our joint legislative town hall, and thank you to REAP’s Executive Director, Mark Johnson for emceeing! It was a great turnout with a lot of constituent engagement!
Today we joined @GovTinaKotek as she signed several of our education wins into law. Here's how we're making OR's schools stronger:
🍎Record K-12 school funding (HB 5015)
🍎Support for OR's educator workforce (SB 283)
🍎Early Literacy Success Initiative (HB 3198)
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Our office will take a break and will resume communication and correspondence after the 25th. We appreciate everyone’s support and enthusiasm this past legislative session and look forward to continue our constituent and community work in the interim.
Classified Employees are the front-line experts who understand what the students are going through day to day. As such, should have a voice on state policy boards and commissions alongside other education professionals. Thank you to the support of OSEA and Rep Boomer Wright.
HB 3014 recognizes the flexibility schools need to meet the unforeseen challenges in getting students to school safely and on time. Schools combine resources where they can to ensure students are getting the most out of their education, and that doesn’t stop inside the classroom.
We know that Oregon’s cultural diversity is one of our greatest assets. This bill is not only a critical investment in education, but an acknowledgment that we see Pacific Islander students and recognize the assets they bring into our classrooms and communities.
Oregon is now the first state in the country with a targeted plan to address the educational disparities faced by K-12 Pacific Islander students. Thank you @Rep_HoaNguyen!
The bill now heads to the Governor’s desk. #orleg#orpol
What a day! Here are a few of the bills we passed:
💻Consumer Privacy Act to protect online data
👩👩👧Oregon's first $1000-per-child tax credit
🗳️HJR 16, proposed constitutional amendment to hold politicians accountable
📚Early Literacy Initiative to improve student success
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Next up on the #PDXPark Challenge: Delta Park!
Today I attended the 50th Annual Delta Park Pow Wow! A powerful display of cultural pride surrounded by talented artisans and delicious food. 🙏🏾❣️ Can't go wrong with friends & frybread on a beautiful cloudy Portland day! ☁️⛅🌤️
When something is wrong, we say something, partly to ensure that harmful outcomes don’t reoccur. If we as a community fail to present and learn from the past, honestly, we will be doomed to relive that nightmare because, without intervention, history will repeat itself #orpol
Huge bummer that shenanigans at #orleg will likely overshadow work from @Rep_HoaNguyen on this bill. Will be big shift in school transportation when it passes.
The Opening Ceremony on Thursday, May 18 was presented by Zomi Innkuan Portland, performing a Zomi cultural dance. They were guests of @Rep_HoaNguyen. The Zomi are one of many ethnic groups that live in Myanmar, Bangladesh & India!
Watch here: https://t.co/jVmjEVPln5
In celebration of Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, our office hosted the KALO Hawaiian Civic Club at the Capitol. Thank you for sharing your culture with us in the house chamber. ❤️ 🌺
The Opening Ceremony on Tuesday, May 9 was presented by KALO Hawaiian Civic Club and Ka Lei Ha`la O Ka Lokelani performing a Hawaiian Chant & Hula. They are from Beaverton & were guests of @Rep_HoaNguyen.
Please watch & enjoy this amazing performance!
https://t.co/kMyD9D8mqo
Love hearing from school districts across Oregon who are being creative and working hard to serve our school communities in these challenging times. Thank you 🙏🏽
The Joint Ways and Means Education Subcommittee held an informational meeting Wednesday on local initiatives in the Baker and Klamath County school districts. Meeting materials can be found here: https://t.co/Z1nagAqDMp #orpol#orleg
Our Constituent Coffee was a huge success! We are so grateful to @bowandarrowcoffeehouse for letting us use their space. We were so happy to see new faces along with some familiar faces. Thank you again to all who came.
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University of Oregon Student Advocacy Day! I think the most interesting thing I heard today was that one of the buildings they need renovated is still in its' original condition! That just amazed me. Higher Education needs to secure funding at its current level at minimum.