{"id":2023050,"date":"2023-09-06T05:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T09:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-teachers-threaten-school-shutdown-if-their-district-declines-to-provide-subsidized-housing\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T09:10:11","slug":"portland-teachers-threaten-school-shutdown-if-their-district-declines-to-provide-subsidized-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-teachers-threaten-school-shutdown-if-their-district-declines-to-provide-subsidized-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland teachers threaten school shutdown over lack of subsidized housing."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fportland-teachers-threaten-school-shutdown-if-their-district-declines-to-provide-subsidized-housing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023050&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Local union pursues left-wing \u2064priorities in collective bargaining showdown<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>(Jackie\u2063 Butler\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Teachers in \u2064Portland, Ore., are on track\u2062 to strike if their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crt-experts-offer-advice-on-how-parents-can-fight-back-against-indoctrination-in-their-childs-classroom\/\" title=\"CRT Experts Offer Advice On How Parents Can Fight Back Against Indoctrination In Their Child\u2019s Classroom\">school district refuses<\/a> to provide subsidized housing for poor public school\u200b students and lobby for expanded rent control, an approach that has led\u200b to school shutdowns in other liberal \u2063cities\u200c as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-teachers-threaten-school-shutdown-if-their-district-declines-to-provide-subsidized-housing\/\" title=\"Portland teachers threaten school shutdown over lack of subsidized housing.\">powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-blue-state-claw-back\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Blue State Claw Back\">teachers&#8217; unions<\/a> pursue\u2063 left-wing \u200dpriorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After months of negotiations with Portland Public Schools, the\u200c Portland Association of\u200c Teachers on August\u200c 22 \u200dwarned its members they &#8220;may be \u200bheading towards a strike,&#8221; citing the district&#8217;s \u200bfailure to agree on\u200c a &#8220;transformative contract.&#8221; Included in\u200c the impasse is\u2063 a union proposal to create a district-led \u2062subsidized housing \u200dinitiative, which would see the district identify land \u200cit owns \u200cthat it could &#8220;convert&#8221; into Section 8 housing for local families. The union is also pushing its district to &#8220;actively lobby and advocate \u2064for&#8221; expanded \u2064rent control laws in \u2062Portland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pps.net\/cms\/lib\/OR01913224\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/PAT%20Public%20Initial%20Proposals%201-30-23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">union documents<\/a> \u2063 reviewed by the <em>Washington Free \u2063Beacon<\/em> show.<\/p>\n<p>The union&#8217;s effort to secure such policies through its labor contract reflects \u2062a broader push from teachers&#8217; unions across the country to use their power to enact left-wing initiatives. In\u200b 2019, unionized teachers \u200bin Chicago closed schools to\u200c achieve so-called common good measures, including subsidized housing.\u200d Then-mayor Lori Lightfoot, a progressive Democrat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/city\/en\/depts\/mayor\/press_room\/press_releases\/2019\/october\/StatementCPSCTUNegotiations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blasted<\/a> the move, arguing that the union&#8217;s\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capitol-police-officers-issue-vote-of-no-confidence-for-top-leadership\/\" title=\"Capitol Police Officers Issue Vote Of No Confidence For Top Leadership\">collective bargaining agreement<\/a> \u2063&#8221;is not the\u200b appropriate place for the city \u2064to legislate its affordable housing policy.&#8221; Unionized teachers in Oakland, \u200bCalif., followed suit\u2063 earlier this summer, and after\u2062 initial pushback, the Oakland Unified School\u2063 District <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oakland-teachers-strike-schools-42eba9bb923fb71432117c8ac38caca5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed<\/a> \u2062 to pursue district-led subsidized\u200c housing and other liberal policies.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Portland Public\u200d Schools nor the Portland Association \u2062of\u2062 Teachers returned requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The union has negotiated\u2063 a new\u2063 contract with its district for nearly a year, but the two\u200c sides remain deadlocked, \u2064and Portland&#8217;s school year\u200c could come to a screeching halt as a result. District teachers went \u200dback \u2062to school earlier \u2064this week, \u200cbut \u2063their arrival \u2062coincided with \u2062an August \u206229 \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdxteachers.org\/pat_news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">message<\/a> \u2064 from union president Angela Bonilla to &#8220;prepare for a strike.&#8221; Two \u200bdays later, the union \u200cannounced that a &#8220;potential strike&#8221; remains on the table.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will \u200bnot accept \u2064the status quo,&#8221; Bonilla said in her message. &#8220;There are and will be a ton of rumors floating around about a possible strike and other topics concerning our bargaining timelines. \u200d&#8230; You will all be\u2064 the\u200b first to know if \u200dwe are\u200b going on strike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Should the union succeed in\u200b its push for\u2064 subsidized housing, the district would have six months to identify and approve\u2063 10 vacant or unused district-owned &#8220;land parcels&#8221;\u2063 that could be converted into\u2063 subsidized housing. The \u200cdistrict\u2062 would also\u2062 be required \u200bto create a &#8220;Community \u2062Housing Task Force&#8221; filled with \u200bunion representatives to\u2063 facilitate the housing \u200binitiative.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the housing proposal, Portland teachers are\u200c seeking to expand\u200c climate justice education\u200c for students and make it \u200dharder to unassign \u2063transgender teachers, which typically occurs due to incompetence, \u2063disciplinary issues, \u200bor school closures.\u2063 The agreement also pushes to end all standardized testing not required by \u2064the state and seeks \u200cto \u2062exert more union control\u2062 over the teacher evaluation process.<\/p>\n<p>State law prohibits a formal strike from taking place until October, but teachers already began \u200cprotesting at the\u200c end \u200cof the 2022-23\u2064 school\u200b year through organized walkouts. \u2063&#8221;Our \u2064students can\u2019t wait,&#8221; Bonilla <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/education\/our-students-cant-wait-pps-teachers-organize-district-wide-walkout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> local outlet KOIN News in June after \u200dthe last collective bargaining agreement ended. &#8220;We have had immense need for our communities since before COVID, closures and\u200d distance learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local union in Portland, Ore., fights for left-wing causes during collective bargaining. Teachers threaten to strike if demands for subsidized housing for underprivileged students and increased rent control are not met. Similar actions have caused school closures in other progressive cities, highlighting their influence. 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