School Board (District 3)
adam burk
In Communication, Adam is EXCEEDING the PEA standard for candidacy. Adam communicates across platforms clearly, accurately, and with specific plans for how to achieve his goals for PPS. He has proactively reached out to PEA leadership to speak about areas of common interest.
In Action and Support for Public Education and the PEA, Adam is a MEETING candidate. He has years of experience of supporting or working in education in various ways, including in Portland Public Schools. Adam clearly articulates support for pro-student, pro-PEA goals, and not only does he explain his ideas on how to implement them, but he also states the importance of educator voice.
sam rosenthal
In Communication, Sam is MEETING the PEA standard for candidacy. Though Sam is not active on social media, his website does outline specific goals and his answers to the questionnaire are direct, cite sources, and provide clear ideas for how to accomplish his goals.
In Action and Support for Public Education and the PEA, Sam is an APPROACHING+ candidate. He has volunteered or otherwise supported PPS for over five years, has specific ideas about how to address issues of equity and poverty, and has a clear plan about how to involve educators in addressing the Portland Promise (and other school-related) goals. He supports a continued push to increase school funding, though to what is “realistically possible in a bipartisan way” rather than to the 55% mandated in 2004 by citizens’ referendum. He suggests that the Board and Portland’s state legislators work together to do so, but specifically how is unclear.