The Salem-Keizer School Board meets Tuesday to consider a safe and welcoming schools resolution and to nominate board members for the Oregon School Boards Association’s board and legislative policy committees.
Board members will consider their annual resolution affirming that district schools are safe and welcoming to all. The resolution reiterates the district’s policy that it will not collect information about student or family immigration status, or allow federal immigration officials into schools without a valid warrant.
The board will consider nominating members for open seats on the Oregon School Boards Association’s board of directors and legislative policy committee.
Board members will do a first reading of a resolution affirming the board’s commitment to equity and antiracism. The board expects to vote on the resolution at its October meeting.
The resolution says the board “commits to support the district’s efforts to build a restorative model for discipline, to monitor discipline data and our key performance indicators disaggregated by race and ethnicity, and to develop a system for monitoring the diversification of our workforce.”
The board will also do a first reading of an agreement to accept a donation of the Career Technical Education Center and the land it sits on from the Community Resource Trust and Suntek, LLC. The center, which houses 10 career programs for high school students, was developed as a public-private partnership between the district and Mountain West Investment Co., with the understanding the property and building would eventually be donated. The site is valued at $20 million.
(Disclosure: Larry Tokarski, Mountain West president, is also a co-founder of Salem Reporter.)
To participate: The meeting will be held online only starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 14. People may sign up in advance to give public comment during the meeting. Sign-ups close at 4 p.m. Monday.
The meeting will be livestreamed on YouTube at the links below, and on Capital Community Media, channel 21.
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulrjO7zbQu0
Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2CoeSC2zMQ
