OPB

Investigation shows Oregon’s early learning agency faces management challenges

Mismanagement, inequity and turnovers plague Oregon’s Department of Early Learning and Care, a new story from InvestigateWest shows. The agency is responsible for more than $1.3 billion in early ...
La Grande Observer

Inequity, mismanagement beleaguer Oregon’s early learning agency, employees say

Lowells, a Latina and Indigenous employee on the Oregon Early Learning Division’s compliance team, had been speaking up for years about offensive comments and passive responses to reports of racism in ...
Statesman Journal

Inequity, mismanagement beleaguer Oregon’s early learning agency, employees say

In December 2022, Priscilla Lowells went over her bosses’ heads to alert the incoming Oregon governor of problems in her workplace. “With great courage I send this email in hopes that someone can hear ...
The Register-Guard

Inequity, mismanagement beleaguer Oregon’s early learning agency, employees say

The Department of Early Learning and Care, she said, “is not the Early Learning Division 2.0. It really is a new agency. We have a new mission, a new vision.” But current and former employees said the ...