A4 The BulleTin • Thursday, May 6, 2021
IN THE OREGON LEGISLATURE
TODAY
Today is Thursday, May 6, the
126th day of 2021. There are 239
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On May 6, 1954, medical stu-
dent Roger Bannister broke
the four-minute mile during a
track meet in Oxford, England,
in 3:59.4.
In 1882, President Chester A.
Arthur signed the Chinese Exclu-
sion Act, which barred Chinese
immigrants from the U.S. for 10
years.
In 1915, Babe Ruth hit his first
major-league home run as a
player for the Boston Red Sox.
In 1937, the hydrogen-filled
German airship Hindenburg
caught fire and crashed while
attempting to dock at Lakehurst,
New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people
on board were killed along with
a crewman on the ground.
In 1941, Josef Stalin assumed
the Soviet premiership. Come-
dian Bob Hope did his first USO
show.
In 2004, President George W.
Bush apologized for the abuse
of Iraqi prisoners by American
soldiers, calling it “a stain on our
country’s honor”; he rejected
calls for Defense Secretary Don-
ald Rumsfeld’s resignation.
In 2010, a computerized sell
order triggered a “flash crash”
on Wall Street, sending the Dow
Jones industrials to a loss of
nearly 1,000 points in less than
half an hour.
In 2013, kidnap-rape victims
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus
and Michelle Knight, who went
missing separately about a de-
cade earlier while in their teens
or early 20s, were rescued from a
house outside Cleveland.
In 2015, the NFL released a
243-report on “Deflategate”
that stopped short of calling
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady
a cheater, but did call some of
his claims “implausible” and
left little doubt that he’d had a
role in having footballs deflated
before New England’s AFC title
game against Indianapolis and
probably in previous games.
Ten years ago: President Barack
Obama met with the U.S. com-
mandos he’d sent after terror
mastermind Osama bin Laden
during a visit to Fort Campbell,
Kentucky. Al-Qaida vowed to
avenge the death of bin Laden,
which it acknowledged for the
first time in a statement.
Five years ago: For the second
month in a row, the aerospace
upstart SpaceX landed a rocket
on an ocean platform just off the
Florida coast, this time following
the successful launch of a Japa-
nese communications satellite.
One year ago: Education
Secretary Betsy DeVos issued a
new policy reshaping the way
schools and universities dealt
with complaints of sexual mis-
conduct; the policy bolstered
the rights of the accused.
Today’s Birthdays: Baseball
Hall of Famer Willie Mays is 90.
Rock singer Bob Seger is 76. Gos-
pel singer-comedian Lulu Roman
is 75. Actor Alan Dale is 74. Actor
Richard Cox is 73. Former British
Prime Minister Tony Blair is 68.
TV personality Tom Bergeron is
66. Actor Roma Downey is 61.
Rock singer John Flansburgh
(They Might Be Giants) is 61.
Actor-director George Clooney
is 60. Rock musician Mark Bryan
(Hootie and the Blowfish) is 54.
Rock musician Chris Shiflett (Foo
Fighters) is 50. Actor Adrianne
Palicki is 38. Actor Gabourey
Sidibe is 38. Rapper Meek Mill is
34. Houston Astros infielder Jose
Altuve is 31.
— Associated Press
Bill would allow motorcyclists
to ride between lanes
Motorcyclists could drive between
lanes of traffic in certain conditions un-
der a bill approved Wednesday in the
Oregon Senate. Called “lane splitting”
or “lane filtering,” the idea is to give mo-
torcycles the ability to slip between slow
or stopped vehicles.
Senate Bill 574, sponsored by a bi-
partisan group of urban and rural law-
makers, lays out some very specific re-
quirements. First, it can only happen on
roads with two or more lanes of traffic
heading in the same direction. Sur-
rounding traffic has to be traveling at 10
mph or slower before the motorcyclist
School board
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Position 2
Lorien Stacona
Stacona, 32, was motivated
to run for the school board
after raising concerns last
year about her seventh-grade
daughter not getting the same
educational opportunities at
the Warm Springs K-8 Acad-
emy as students at Jefferson
County Middle School in Ma-
dras.
Stacona’s daughter, now in
eighth grade, doesn’t have the
same access to elective classes,
advanced classes and tutoring
as other students in the school
district.
This year, Stacona consid-
ered transferring her sixth-
grade son to Jefferson County
Middle School, but then de-
cided that wouldn’t be fair to
him or his classmates in Warm
Springs. Instead, she decided
to seek a spot on the school
board.
“For me, running for school
board is not something I want
to do,” Stacona said. “I feel like
I have to do it, and it’s my last
option to create change for
our children that don’t have a
voice.”
Stacona is also focused on
improving communication
with the school board, staff
and parents. Over the years,
Stacona said, she has heard
from several teachers about
how they don’t feel supported,
but don’t feel comfortable shar-
ing their concerns.
“When you have teachers
that feel that way but can’t ex-
press that, we have a problem,”
Stacona said.
Stacona wants to create an
environment where the school
board can have more con-
versations with teachers and
parents, rather than the lim-
ited opportunities to speak at
board meetings.
“Having that communica-
tion is so important for our
children,” Stacona said. “As
adults, we have to have that be-
cause it impacts the kids.”
Jamie Hurd
Hurd, 37, a former wildlife
biologist with three children in
kindergarten, fourth grade and
sixth grade, has served on the
school board for the past four
years.
Hurd said she wants to
build off of progress the school
board has made, such as secur-
ing more than $20 million in
grants over the past four years,
and making financial decisions
that helped the district avoid
can move between the lanes.
While riding between the slow or
stopped traffic, motorcyclists could go
up to 10 mph faster than surrounding
vehicles. Once traffic speeds up to at
least 10 miles per hour, the cyclist would
have to merge back into a regular lane.
Lane splitting would only be allowed
on highways with a speed limit of 50
mph. That means most surface streets
in the Portland metro area would not
qualify, but freeways such as U.S. 26, In-
terstate 5 and Interstate 84 would.
The bill now moves to the House.
Lane splitting has been legal in Califor-
nia for many years. Utah and Montana
have legalized it more recently, although
parameters differ from state to state.
layoffs during the COVID-19
pandemic.
“We’ve made some really
sound and strategic budget in-
vestments that have allowed us
to weather the cost of COVID
a lot better than neighboring
districts,” Hurd said. “Where
some had to lay off staff, we are
adding and expanding. We are
doing a lot better than most.”
The next year will also be
important for welcoming the
new school superintendent,
Jay Mathisen, who was hired
earlier this year, Hurd said.
Mathisen worked as the direc-
tor of educational leadership
at George Fox University in
Newberg.
“I feel like it’s essential that
the board connects him to the
work we have been building
upon and helps him connect
with our community so that
none of this progress stops,”
Hurd said.
Another goal for Hurd is ex-
panding the school district’s
community outreach. Through
the pandemic, the district
reached families over virtual
platforms. Hurd wants to con-
tinue offering virtual meetings
since it’s easier for busy families
to offer feedback, she said.
“It’s not face-to-face and it’s
not as personable, but we have
gotten a lot more information,”
Hurd said. “We just have to
keep getting creative on how
we connect with families.”
Position 3
Jaylyn Suppah
Suppah, 34, has dedicated
her professional life to advocat-
ing for more educational op-
portunities in Warm Springs.
She has served on the Confed-
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Oregon Senate passes bill to ban
day care, preschool suspensions
A proposal to eventually ban sus-
pensions and expulsions at private day
cares and preschools that receive public
funding is on its way to the state House,
after Senate lawmakers passed the plan
on a bipartisan vote Tuesday.
Senate Bill 236 would ban private
programs from suspending or expelling
children starting in 2026, an effort to
interrupt what supporters described
as the school-to-prison pipeline.
It can begin in preschool, when
national statistics show Black boys are
disciplined at a highly disproportionate
rate.
Stacona
erated Tribes of Warm Springs’
education committee, worked
in the tribe’s early childhood
education center and repre-
sented the tribes on a statewide
American Indian/Alaska Na-
tive Advisory Council
“This work has been my life,
and it’s not just an election for
me,” Suppah said. “It’s really
about being able to provide a
voice for the communities that
we are supposed to serve.”
Suppah, who has two chil-
dren in second and fourth
grade at the Warm Springs K-8
Academy, said the vast major-
ity of students in the school
district are Native or Latino,
but the current school board
does not match the demo-
graphics.
“When you look at who is
serving on the school board,
there is only one representative
who is from Warm Springs,”
Suppah said, referring to
Danzuka. “It just doesn’t re-
ally equal out to the amount of
people who should be serving
on that board that reflects the
community.”
As a board member, Suppah
Struck
Sen. Michael Dembrow, a Portland
Democrat who carried Senate Bill 236
for the floor vote, said in a statement
that “national and state data show con-
sistently that discipline against BIPOC
kids and those with disabilities happens
at disproportionate rates. It creates a
distrust –and dislike –of the education
system and it functions to push kids
out.”
Child care providers and the union
that represents them, AFSCME, testi-
fied against the proposal and asked law-
makers to ban the state’s Early Learning
Division from using its rulemaking au-
thority to crack down on suspensions
and expulsions.
Suppah
would be motivated to pro-
vide leadership and support to
other people of color who are
interested in serving in public
office. The school board cur-
rently has no Latino members,
which Suppah hopes changes
in future elections.
Suppah sees the school
board as an opportunity to
share her experience working
on educational issues in the re-
gion. For her, win or lose, she
plans to stay involved through
her work as a community plan-
ner.
“I’ll still be advocating,” Sup-
pah said. “I’m not going any-
where.”
Jacob Struck
Struck, 34, a construction
superintendent for Skanska
USA Building, grew up in
Madras and credits his shop
classes in high school for in-
spiring him to pursue his ca-
reer.
From 2016 to 2018, Struck
was invited back to Madras
High School to help launch the
Career and Technical Educa-
tion program.
“I did that for two years, and
— Bulletin wire reports
that really opened my eyes to
what many of our kids are go-
ing through and what chal-
lenges they are facing and what
they really need in the school
district,” Struck said.
As a school board member,
Struck would like to bolster the
existing vocational programs
and see where there are op-
portunities to add more. It is
important to offer a variety of
programs, since the majority
of students do not go on to col-
lege, Struck said.
“Having those programs
available and allowing our
youth another option other
than college would be a high
priority for me on the board,”
he said.
Struck, who has three chil-
dren in kindergarten, sec-
ond and fourth grades, said
he wants to get more families
engaged with their children’s
education and make sure their
children are consistently going
to school. When Struck taught
at the high school, he noticed
many kids would be absent
for weeks. He understands the
tardiness is likely a result of
the poverty issues in the re-
gion, but it is something Struck
wants to address.
“That importance of show-
ing up to school and being a
part of school is huge,” Struck
said.
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