The Reynolds School District, which serves one of the biggest concentrations of high needs students in the Portland metro area, is losing its superintendent midyear.
The school board met late Thursday in executive session, then in a meeting open to the public, to accept the resignation of Dr. Danna Diaz. Board members said they will immediately launch a search for an interim superintendent.
Diaz’s three-year contract was due to expire on June 30, 2023, and the board had yet to renew it. She was not present at Thursday night’s meeting.
“This could be a lot to take in at the middle of the school year, around the holidays,” said school board member Yesenia Delgado on Thursday. But she said community members and district families should know that there will be more communication coming about how to be involved in the district’s next steps.
Reynolds, which stretches from Northeast Portland through North Gresham, Fairview and into Troutdale, was one of the metro area districts that offered the fewest in-person instructional hours to its students when school buildings reopened in 2021, in stark contrast to districts that serve a largely whiter and wealthier population. About 44% of students who attend Reynolds are Hispanic/Latino. The district has struggled with chronic absenteeism among its students, and a graduation rate that is significantly lower than the Oregon average.
Meanwhile, the district’s student test scores on the first statewide assessment given since the pandemic set off alarm bells. Three schools in the district, Davis and Salish Ponds elementaries and Reynolds Middle School, had virtually no students working at or above grade level in math. At another of the district’s elementary schools, Alder K-5, virtually no students hit grade level targets in reading and writing.
Community members also recently spoke out at a school board meeting to protest a shooting near Reynolds High School in October, alleging that the district hadn’t taken proper safety precautions and failed to fully communicate with families about the situation. A 16-year-old student at the high school was arrested in the incident, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.
The district weathered a shooting at Reynolds High School in 2014 that left one student dead and a teacher wounded; the 15-year-old freshman gunman shot himself in the head after a confrontation with police.
— Julia Silverman, jsilverman@oregonian.com, @jrlsilverman
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