Irvington PTA - Irvington Elementary School PTA

Upcoming Meetings and Events:

Thursday, October 15th, 5:30 – 7:30pm: Irvington Event – Sign-Making Party on the blacktop
Thursday, October 15th, 6 – 8pm: PPS Event – Community Voice: Special Education Families at Kellogg Middle School
Saturday, October 17th, 8:30am: Irvington Event – Bike Bus to Grant! Meet at the front of our school in Irvington gear. Not going to bike? Meet us by the bike racks in front of Grant at 8:50am. Wear your Irvington gear and bring your signs!
Saturday, October 17th, 9 – 11am: PPS Event – School Impact Conversation – NE Region at Grant High School (for Irvington, Rose City Park, Beverly Cleary and Laurelhurst)
Saturday, October 17th, 11am – 2pm: PPS Event – Board of Education Community Connection at McDaniel High School
Monday, October 19th, 5:30 – 7:30pm: Irvington Event – PTA General Meeting
Monday, October 19th, 6 – 8pm: PPS Event – Community Voice: Multilingual Families on zoom
Wednesday, October 21st, 6 – 8pm: PPS Event – Community Voice: Multilingual Families on zoom
Thursday, October 22nd, 8 – 9am: Irvington Event – Sip & Spill on the blacktop
Thursday, October 22nd: PAT Event – Save our Schools Summit hosted at Irvington
Thursday, October 22nd, 6 – 8pm: PPS Event: Community Voice: Black/African American Community Connection location TBD

- 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.