Oregon Public Broadcasting.“It still goes back to the fact that we have a lot of kids that are impacted by this positively or negatively,” Board chair Dave Brown said. “As a school board, it’s our job to make decisions that are going to be there for every single kid at Newberg High School, not just the kids that are represented in just one group — it has to be all kids.”Board member Ines Peña, who wore a BLM T-shirt and a rainbow headband for the virtual meeting, called for more time for student input before voting on the motion.
Peña is the only board member who is a person of color.“The quality of some of the stories that we heard should count more than just the number of emails that we received,” Peña said. “And I feel like that’s not.