Irvington PTA - Irvington Elementary School PTA

Upcoming Meetings and Events:

Saturday, November 14th, 10am-12pm: PAT Save Our Schools March & Rally. Start at PAT headquarters – 345 NE 8th – and march or roll (~1 mi) across the Burnside Bridge to show Portland that we want to Save Our Schools. Rain or Shine. Family friendly. RSVP to attend HERE. Weather dependent bike bus (no rain or light rain) will meet in front of Irvington at 9:30am, depart at 9:40am. Want to meet there? Look for IES folks in the middle of 8th Avenue between Flanders and Everett. Text Chrissy if you can’t find the group: 603-767-7249.
Tuesday, November 17th, 5-6pm: Rally for a Pause ahead of School Board Meeting at Benson High School. Join students, families and teachers from across the district ahead of the PPS Board meeting in which the Superintendent will present her final proposal to the Board. Wear your Irvington gear, bring a sign and plan to stay for the board meeting after if you can (goes til late!).
Wednesday, November 18th, 6-8pm: PPS Disability Voice Engagement on zoom
Thursday, November 19th, 6-8pm: PPS Board of Education Public Listening Session at Franklin High School
Wednesday, December 2nd: Salem Action – Save the Date (and plan for PTO if you have it). We’ll caravan to Salem to meet with state legislators and make our needs known to the Education Committee.
Thursday, December 3rd, 6-8pm: PPS Board of Education Public Listening Session at Grant High School

- If you are looking for a place to connect, converse and swap information with your Irvington school community, join “Irvington & PPS Proposals” Slack channel. Learn more about it here.
- If you have questions or concerns about the school closure proposal, need to get clarity and want to take action, join with a group of families coming together to identify major issues about the school closure proposals that have not been answered by the district and moving to action together. Connect with the group by emailing irvingtonfamilies4publicschool@gmail.com
- If you are ready to carry our voice beyond Irvington to the people who decide for every Oregon child, join Oregon Schools Together Now, a new coalition uniting families of the 78,000 students across PPS and Salem-Keizer. Our first caravan to Salem leaves this Friday, October 16, right after drop-off.

Meeting with other PTA leaders in our current catchment (Sabin, MLK, Boise Eliot) to support each other, share information and coordinate our efforts
Sending representatives to the SavePDXSchools Coalition gathering to plug into district-wide efforts to demand answers to our questions about how these changes will really impact students
Coordinating with PAT (Portland Association of Teachers) organizers to participate in their network of actions opposing school consolidations
Reaching out to other stakeholders in our area to invite them to share in this work with us: elected officials, community/neighborhood association boards, school board members, other PTAs and media partners.