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After learning just today that Guadalupe Guerrero has decided to step down, I for one, as a tax payer wholeheartedly support this decision.
Especially given how the PPS school district has financially compensated this man for his years of service at the tax payers expense.
This information was made public knowledge back in 2022 by an article put out by the Portland Tribune.
I would encourage you to have a look at this so you see how your hard earned tax dollars are being spent.
I think if more tax payers were made aware of this information they too would understand why our schools our suffering due to mismanagement of funds. Especially at the district level.

I worked for Portland Public Schools for well over 20 years. The last 7 out of the district office and saw plenty during my time there. I’ve since retired. Best gift I ever gave myself.

If the district truly cares about our students, teachers and staff then it’s high time they start showing it.

This can be achieved my paying a fair salary to “All” employees regardless of their position/title and reorganization in all departments.

When I was working my supervisor and the office manager were both making and still are close to $100,000 each per year. More than a seasoned school teacher. There’s something very wrong with this picture.

The scales are not balanced. Not by a long shot. And this is only one example.

My understanding is that Guadalupe will be taking some time off to spend with family and to address self care. He has your hard earned tax dollars to thank for this.

Now I ask, how many of you have the luxury of doing the same. We have a voice people. Let’s use it.

This year honestly the school district is in complete shambles. First the teachers go on strike for two weeks and finally they negotiate an agreement with them. They have no funds even with help from Oregon! Teachers have to buy supplies with their own money! Then they decided to make up a week for the strike by taking a week out of Winter Break which the teachers were mad about but honestly cope you were the ones going on strike, but then a few weeks after winter break ended there was a snow storm for a week so that was pointless. Now they’re probably going to add time onto the days or take two weeks out of summer which is sort of sad. Honestly I think the teachers caused some of this, but those aren’t the worst problems. The schools are completely falling apart and their attempts to remodel them are displacing most of the kids that might have gone to those campuses. Plus the people higher up on the ladder get payed way too much and they make the entire system completely dysfunctional. The school districts problems are really just a shadow of the entire City of Portland. Honestly kind of sad, I don’t know if they’ll ever be able to recover. One star.