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Teachers and union critics press board over reduction-in-force process, cite state labor ruling
Summary
Public commenters and a board member criticized the district's reduction-in-force process as lacking transparency and potentially violating contract provisions; a recent Oregon Employment Relations Board ruling was cited as a source of concern.
Multiple teachers and a union-affiliated speaker used public comment to urge the Tigard-Tualatin School Board to follow contract procedures and provide greater transparency after the district announced reductions in force.
Emily Den (public commenter) told the board that staff were assured on March 13 that budget decisions would minimize classroom impacts, but that an April 7 declaration of reductions proposed cutting 64 licensed staff, 14.5 classified staff and three administrators. Den said the district had not shown evidence of similar cuts away from direct student contact and described confusion and "a mess of uncertainty" created by voluntary-transfer offers and use of the term…
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