October 3, 2024 From OSEA (Oregon School Employees Association) Chapter 28 Bargaining Team More of the same! Our bargaining team has been negotiating since February 2, 2024, for a fair contract that…
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Oregon School Employees Association (OSEA) Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Against Tillamook School District #9
By OSEA Tillamook Chapter 28 Bargaining Team Over the course of bargaining with the Tillamook School District, our bargaining team has tirelessly worked to amicably resolve issues and reach a fair settlement…
Sitka Center Expands K-8 Create Arts Education Program to 17 Oregon Schools
As the 2024-2025 school year begins, thousands of students in rural Oregon will have access to arts and STEAM education through the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology’s K-8 Create program. This…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY UNITED AGAINST BOOK BANS: Letters Continue to School Board, Request for Reversal Not on TSD#9 School Board Agenda
EDITOR’S NOTE: The letters continue to come in, and more community members sign up united against book bans. The Tillamook School District Board did not have the book ban reversal on the…
TILLAMOOK SCHOOL BOARD – Book Ban Process Flawed from Beginning, Every Step; TSD#9 School Board Meeting Monday Sept. 9th
SEVEN…that’s the number of women who have disclosed to me their story of sexual assault/abuse in the last few weeks. No, I don’t work in the medical or legal field. I don’t…
LETTER TO EDITOR: Book Banning in Tillamook
As a writer and long-time high school English teacher, I find myself deeply troubled by the Tillamook School Board’s decision to ban the lovely novel “How The Garcia Girls Lost their Accents”…
LETTERS TO TILLAMOOK SCHOOL BOARD & SUPERINTENDENT: Banning Books Abhorent; Call to Reverse Ban
Dear School Board members & Superintendent, We are writing to you to express our distress and disagreement with the recent removal and banning of Julia Alvarez’ book, “How The Garcia Girls Lost…
Request for reversal of Tillamook School Board’s decision to remove How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez from high school curriculum
EDITOR’S NOTE: Over 50 local, Tillamook County community members signed a request to the TSD#9 School Board to reverse the book ban. Local people continue to be added to the list ……
Tillamook School District Ignores Requests to Reverse Book Ban from Parents, Community Members
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Tillamook School District #9 School Board meeting is Monday September 9th at 5:30pm. There is NOT an agenda item about reversing the ban on “How the Garcia Girls Lost…
AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS – LETTER TO TILLAMOOK SCHOOL BOARD – Over 700 signatures to bring back Garcia Girls
September 3, 2024 Dear Tillamook School Board Members, We, the undersigned authors and illustrators, are writing to oppose the removal of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents from your district’s 10th-grade…
