ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports

40,000 Oregon families who reopened Oregon schools and restarted sports. Fighting for full reopening. #openorschools #openschools #fullfive

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

@hborrud This is how government runs.
9-5 or less. Never ask more than that. Data beaches happen. They require all hands on deck. Some delay on public announcement to be sure resources are deployed makes sense. That is 24 hours or less for private industry. Weeks for gov

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

So predictable, so devastating, so avoidable.

The people who kept our schools closed and supported school closures need to be held accountable and we must do more. Why don’t we have one on one tutoring in every district? ⁦@pps_portland⁩ https://t.co/vtj2a4IsQC

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

We are so very proud of Rene!! We are proud of the campaign you ran and the class you showed when the opposition lied about you and us. We will never stop fighting for Oregon kids.

Go forth and do good for our City!!

[Rene For Portland @reneforportland]

Comm. Hardesty just called to congratulate & wish me luck in my new role. I want to thank her for her service to the city. Will have more news on celebration & transition soon, but do want to thank staff, donors, vols & my family for all the help.

Time to restore Portland!

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

We will await final counts but we are bursting with pride for @reneforportland. We had your back. We all had the backs of Oregon children. We will be here fighting for kids with you. Forever.

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

These numbers are devastating. These are the kids we were fighting for.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Pacific Islanders kids - 69% chronically absent

Black kids - 64%

Latino kids - 47%

Too many of these kids will end up dropping out.

Tell me again how it was just 2 weeks, 2 months… no permanent impact…

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

This is a perfect description of Ed 300. People attacking us for reaching across party lines and putting kids first are wrong. We need more moderation and collaboration to solve big problems, not more polarization. https://t.co/MS3oLvHRjQ

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

@MayorMingus @LeslieBienen @JoAnnPDX @reneforportland Ed 300 didn’t “work with hate groups.” There isn’t even an allegation that we did. Way to prove Leslie’s point.

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

This. We are proud of our work and we will not be tarnished by lies uttered for political gain by people who stood by silently while kids suffered.

[lbienenvet @LeslieBienen]

A thread on local politics and the behavior of ⁦@JoAnnPDX⁩ campaign. Bear w me for a few tweets. 1) the lies and smears she and her campaign have engaged in against ⁦@reneforportland⁩ and @ed3009 are what keep good people out of local politics. https://t.co/BWLu0108b0

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

This. All the people attacking Ed 300 - where were you? How many kids did you check on? Feed? You took away their safety net and then abandoned them for 18 months - while you sat on your comfy couch.

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

Our accusers say we demanded schools open without masks. The receipts say otherwise.

What kind of people attack parents who volunteered their time fighting for all Oregon students?

Where were they when our students needed them most?

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

There are a lot of falsehoods being spread about who Ed 300 is and was. We were a group of thousands of parents with a single-minded focus to give all students the CHOICE of in-person school. We held rallies, wore masks and wrote our leaders. That is who we were.

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

“Politicians have been happy to use the classroom as a battleground for fighting about broader cultural divides or to cater to politically powerful teachers unions, while neglecting questions about whether students are learning.” https://t.co/nSKbXu19hk

[Elle @ElleRC84]

See this @BLPSchools and @cookstev? We don’t need “equitable grading.” We need to raise the standards and help kids meet them. Not lower the standards so your graduation numbers look good. @OregonGovBrown @Tina4Oregon

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

The pandemic has laid bare the failures in public education.

“The way to reverse declining student achievement is not by eliminating standards. It’s by doing more to help students meet them — and holding schools accountable for their results.” https://t.co/AbObzmrz0m

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

“With little evidence that school closures saved lives and ample evidence that they hurt kids, this is a policy that failed. “

School Closures Were a Failed Policy - The Atlantic https://t.co/CHlFiXaNHl

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

It bears remembering that school closures did not help prevent the spread of Covid. No benefit for all that harm reported today.

“Importantly, the data … show no relationship between the extent of school closures and COVID-19 infection rates…” https://t.co/ormgXUqGbb

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

Unsurprisingly- learning loss was greater in states where schools were closed longest.

[Margery Smelkinson, Ph.D. @MSmelkinsonPhD]

Comparing NAEP math scores from 2019 to 2022 shows an expected trend of more learning loss in states that closed school longer.

Also keep in mind, these 2022 scores are from students that are still around to take the test.
https://t.co/4OgMVIrc6S

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

This is why we fought tooth and nail to open Oregon’s schools. Every day that they were closed, students fell further behind. Our detractors said remote school was school and students were “resilient.” They were wrong. https://t.co/dqGTSxlPEI

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

Schools were always safe. The data was clear on this by mid-2020 from Europe and then states that opened (including D run Rhode Island and Marin County, California). Yet, Oregon was almost second last to open.

[Joseph Allen @j_g_allen]

The covid-associated hospitalization rate for school ages kids (5-17) has decreased since schools opened, and is currently 0.2 per 100,000.

[ED 300 - Reopening Oregon Schools and Sports @ed3009]

@girlwonderau You should look into where one of the authors worked in 2020-21.🧐. She had a financial motivation to keep schools closed, but she never discloses that.