Read the Transcript: Trudy Sargent Says "No" to Teachers Contract

By BETH SLOVIC

The Portland School Board voted 5-1 last night to approve a new, two-year agreement with the district's teachers union, the Portland Association of Teachers. Board member Martín González was the lone "no" vote. But board colleague Trudy Sargent, who missed the last-minute meeting due to prior travel plans, sent a 3 1/2-page written statement explaining why she would have voted "no," too.  

Following a tradition WW started in October when board member David Wynde offered an interesting and lengthy explanation for his "no" vote on the losing side of a School Board vote to close Marshall High, we're posting Sargent's dissenting opinion, which a district employee read into the record last night. Here it is:


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