After two weeks of tumult, school board members in Woodburn — where 87% of students are Latino, the highest of any Oregon school district — have reversed themselves and supported a resolution expressing support for the privacy and rights of immigrant and refugee students.
The reversal, which passed on a 3-1 vote, with school board chair Noemi Legaspi abstaining, came after two hours of contentious testimony during which speaker after speaker castigated the board for rejecting the resolution at their previous meeting on Feb. 25.