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November 22, 2017
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school, located next to I-5 in the
Eliot Neighborhood, the district
now plans to spend more money
on immediate physical upgrades
to the school, taking some safety
issues off the table and speeding
up the time it takes to fully eval-
uate concerns.
Any issue under study is not
expected to stop the plans for
opening the school in the fall,
Guerrero said.
The updated timeline came
during a Thursday news confer-
ence he attended that was orga-
nized by education advocates
from the black community, in-
cluding Self Enhancement Inc.
founder and director Tony Hop-
son, Albina Head Start Director
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presence at the meeting “histor-
ic” and congratulated him for
having the leadership and cour-
age to attend the meeting in only
his sixth week on the job.
“In the past we have never had
a press conference where both
sides were at the table together,”
Hopson said.
Guerrero promised that he and
the school board were “commit-
ted to opening Tubman” and that
they’re “going to stay aggressive
on this timeline” by not search-
ing for a plan “b” and expediting
air quality testing.
Guerrero said that Portland
Public Schools will make $11
million for renovations, in-
cluding fixing roof leaks at the
school and adding a new heat-
ing, ventilation, and air condi-
tioning system. About $2 mil-
lion dollars of that amount will
upgrade Tubman’s foundational
suitability for upgrades, immedi-
ately addressing concerns about
a sloping hillside, officials said.
However these promises do
come with the contingency that
unforeseen safety concerns,
could still in the long run delay
plans and mean the school would
not be ready for opening in the
fall.
“We believe that we have the
support of this superintendent
headed in the right direction. But
for those of us who have been
on this train for a long time, we
recognize that if we’re not vig-
ilant, if we don’t hold folks ac-
countable, things could change
again,” Herndon said.
Editor’s note: A video tran-
script of the meeting with Guer-
rero and black educational lead-
ers is included in our coverage
of this story on portlandobserv-
er.com.
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