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February 14,1990 . Portland Observer • Black History Month • Page 11
The Portland Observer
Dedicates this issue to those
African-Americans whose
Contribution to Black History
Helped to Shape
American History.
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CHAVIS
You can't talk about the accomplishments of
Black Oregonians without shouting about their
historic professional successes in Portland Public
Schools.
Despite the demographic odds, Blacks have
earned the highest positions of responsibility and
respect in the Northwest's largest public educa
tional system.
Blacks represent only 15.4 percent of the
school district's students (1987-88 enrollment),
just 7.0 percent of the city's inhabitants (1980
census) and barely 1.4 percent of the state's
residents (1980 census).
Y e t. . .
• Matthew Prophet since 1982 has been the
superachieving superintendent of schools
sought by New York, Los Angeles and several
other large urban school districts.
• Ernest Hartzog has been an assistant super
intendents Portland since 1972. He now is the
No. 3 educator in the system, in charge of
districtwide and alternative programs.
GERALD
Just ask Matt, Ernie, Aletha,
Bill, Edith, Ed, Nate, Mac and
604 other Black PPS employees . . .
WILSON
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JONES
LOCKETT
• Aletha Chavis has been personnel director
since 1980. She's been instrumental in the
employment of 6,551 teachers and support
employees, of whom 9.3 percent are Black (a
14.1 percent increase since 1980-81).
• Bill Gerald and Edith Wilson are two of eight
cluster directors o f instruction overseeing
operations of scores of schools
• Ed Green, director of transportation services.
supervises the complexities of busing thou
sands of school children.
• Nate Jones, administrator of Jefferson High,
was honored by his Oregon peers as 1987
Secondary Principal of the Year.
• Mac Lockett is chief of the 20-member Portland
School Police Dept
Affirmative action and multiethnic-multicultural
education aren’t just talk in Portland Public
Schools. Just ask Matt, Ernie, Aletha, Bill, Edith,
Nate, Mac and 604 other Black employees of the
school district.
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