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Position open until filled; resume review will begin immediately. Equal Opportunity Employer Center, $14.34 - $15.17 hourly. Deadline: 07/26/2016 Relief Facility Security Agent – On-call , Oregon Convention Center, $15.20 - $18.13 hourly. Deadline: 07/26/2016 These opportunities are open to First Opportunity Target Area (FOTA) residents: This area includes the following zip codes located primarily in N, NE and a small portion of SE Portland: 97024, 97030, Clark College is currently 97203, 97211, 97212, 97213, accepting applications for the 97216, 97217, 97218, 97220, following positions: 97227, 97230, 97233, 97236, • Program Assistant – and 97266, whose total annual Transitional Studies income was less than $47,000 • Program Specialist 2 – for a household of up to two Financial Aid individuals or less than $65,000 • Purchasing Assistant for a household of three or more. Salaries and closing dates vary. For complete position To apply: visit our web site at: www. description, requirements and oregonmetro.gov/jobs for the to apply, access our website complete job announcement and at www.clark.edu/jobs. Clark a link to our online hiring center or College Human Resources, 1933 visit our lobby kiosk at Metro, 600 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, NE Grand Ave, Portland. WA 98663 (360) 992-2105. AA/ Metro is an Affirmative Action / EO employer. Equal Opportunity Employer Preschool Promise Conflict C ontinued from f ront of both students and staff in Or- egon, with around 56 percent of the children being black and approximately 42 percent identi- fying as Latino. In terms of the demographics of teachers, Hern- don says the staff’s ethnicities approximate the children. Part of what upsets Ladd and Herndon, who have been work- ing together in exposing the pos- sible aftermath of the Promise legislation, is that there isn’t any existing proof that a Bachelor’s Degree has any affect on the va- lidity of a preschool educator. “People continue to build upon this myth that this will professionalize the occupation of a preschool teacher and per- haps it looks good to someone who doesn’t know, but I’ve seen people come into the program with BAs and children run them out of the room,” says Herndon. “For terms of what you get for what you invest, it’s not a good investment.” That’s not to say Herndon or Ladd feel a higher educational degree is a total waste, but in terms of a BA being a necessi- ty to properly handle children, it means little. Ladd received her BA in Ele- mentary Education from Boston College and a Masters in Educa- tion Policy from Harvard Uni- versity, so “for her to say that a BA doesn’t give you any better experience in education, that’s saying something” according to Herndon. Head Start has a Center Train- ing Assistant (CTA) Program which integrates interested par- ents into a career in early child- hood development by offering paid training and classroom in- struction as well as a substitute position once training is com- plete. Since 2010 alone, 70 par- ents have been hired on as edu- cators with CTA. Another important factor to consider is the financial barrier preschool educators face return- ing to college. Sandy Stevens, who instructs parents in the Head Start CTA Program at Mt. Hood Community College, sees this as a major con- cern along with the high turnover rate that comes when preschool teachers with degrees are hired away by competing forces. “We cannot compete with the salaries of a school district,” says Stevens. “I’ve been with Head Start since 1985. It’s a good pro- gram. I’ve earned my BA and my Masters over time and people wonder why I choose to stay. I like the work that I do for this commu- nity and I don’t want to leave it.” Per Oregon’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) standards, the higher the degree of the instructor, the higher star rating the facility or program re- ceives and this puts additional pressure against the experienced preschool teacher who lacks the advanced degree. Further, a higher star rating gets a facility or program more fund- ing, which again proves a problem for retaining proven and existing early development educators. “It neglects the needs of com- munities of color,” Stevens says. “We’ve got staff members that speak nearly 30 languages at Head Start, yet we don’t get a high star rating. I just don’t see it as being very fair.” Since the legislation is still fair- ly green, the repercussions have yet to be completely evident. To Herndon, whatever complications arise will only burden an already lagging educational system. “Education is about 30 years behind. They’re not concerned about our outcomes; they’re con- cerned about our pedigrees. That’s why we’re so behind compared to rest of the world,” says Herndon. “We would not have Apple or Dell computers, Microsoft or Facebook -- none of them were started out of a BA degree, those were started out of practical train- ing and personal experience. If it’s okay for high tech, why would we not dumb down our expecta- tions for teacher performances to be consistent with a myth about teacher preparation?” Herndon says. L egaL N otices Need to publish a court document or notice? Need an affidavit of publication quickly and efficiently? Please fax or e-mail your notice for a free price quote! Fax: 503-288-0015 e-mail: classifieds@portlandobserver.com The Portland Observer
