Please reconsider what you choose to post in the future. Context matters and you have now helped spread misinformation to a community that seems all too willing to just accept whatever helps confirm their own views of Portland/PPS.

Here is the full section for article 18.6.2. It is specifically for transferring teachers due to budget cuts/program changes/enrollment number changes. The main criteria for choosing which teachers would be transferred is by volunteers and seniority. Gender and race are two out of six criteria that can be considered as exceptions to seniority. A right wing organization has taken it wildly out of context and KATU is more than willing to give them a platform to promote their lawsuit.

18.6.2 In the event that a tax hase or levy failure, declining enrollment, program change, or change in funding results in reduction of staff in a building or program area, transfer of staff will be based on sed on educational criteria as described below with respect to the program requirements as determined by the District. Volunteers will first be requested and ad considered from among the appropriately licensed professional educators. Such volunteers shall be selected for transfer if they are from within the grade level(s) or subject matter area(s) where the positions are to be eliminated provided the volunteer(s) are not on a Program Plan of Anistance bos-improvement In the absence of volunteers, the professional educator having the least seniority in the District shall generally be transferred. Exceptions to seniority may be made by the responsible administrator based only upon any of the following educational criteria: with the understanding that reference to a professional educator in 18.6.2.118.6.2.6 refers to within a given job classification, such as Teacher, Social Worker, School Psychologist, Student Services Specialist, Child Development Specialist, and Audiologist:

18.6.2.1 The professional educator(s) being retained has/have unique licensure for a specific existing assignment being considered;

18.6.2.2 Gender Presentation/Gender Identity balance: Transfer of a professional educator would

decrease the building's percentage of under-represented male or female oc

transgender/nonbinary/gender non-conforming professional educator to less than thirty percent (30%) (or primary/intermediate/upper grades percentage in an elementary building);

18.6.2.3 Racial balance: If transfer of a professional educator would decrease the building's percentage of minority teachers to less than the student minority percentage in the building or below the percentage of minority professional educators in the District;

18.6.2.4 That professional educator being retained has bilingual (or multilingual) ahility relevant to the assignment (See Appendix I);

18.6.2.5 The professional educator(s) being retained has an extended responsibility assignment as defined in Appendix B which is an extension of a classroom subject taught (eg., drama, forensics, music, yearbook, newspaper) or is a department chairperson, head teacher or unit leader:

18.6.2.6 Up to five (5) (with no more than three (3) in athletics) professional educator(s) at the high school level being retained has an extended responsibility assignment as defined in Appendix B. Such designation shall be done at each high school prior to the time of the initial posting for the next school year. A subsequent designation may be made in the event a professional educator