Marisa Zapata
@marisazapata.bsky.social
Educator, researcher, administrator @ Portland State University.
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Want to be crystal clear that when I say "overall filers" I mean the number of households (7%) who pay this tax has grown even if the tippy top of this top 7% did not. The bottom line is that overall we have seen growth in the no. of households earning over 200k/yr! www.portland.gov/council/dist...
October 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Want to be crystal clear that when I say "overall filers" I mean the number of households (7%) who pay this tax has grown even if the tippy top of this top 7% did not. The bottom line is that overall we have seen growth in the no. of households earning over 200k/yr! www.portland.gov/council/dist...
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We are dealing with extreme heat in Multnomah County. 🥵 The following libraries will have extended hours today:
August 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We are dealing with extreme heat in Multnomah County. 🥵 The following libraries will have extended hours today:
Grateful and inspired by the @friendsofpfa.bsky.social and all of the partner organizations that organized a massive turnout to protect one of most common sense programs I have seen. Truly inspiring work.
Over the past month, our coalition and our community came together to say, NO CUTS, NO COMPROMISES. Thank you for every email, phonecall, public comment, and PB&J assembly line for toddlers at evening meetings. Together, we won Preschool for All- AGAIN! The tax cuts are paused!
August 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Grateful and inspired by the @friendsofpfa.bsky.social and all of the partner organizations that organized a massive turnout to protect one of most common sense programs I have seen. Truly inspiring work.
FULL RETREAT.
🚨 This just in from the board meeting:
Brim Edwards is moving to table her proposal indefinitely until a later date agreed on by the board, and made a motion to make today a briefing and discussion on her indexing proposal instead of a vote.
Full retreat.
Organizing gets the goods.
Brim Edwards is moving to table her proposal indefinitely until a later date agreed on by the board, and made a motion to make today a briefing and discussion on her indexing proposal instead of a vote.
Full retreat.
Organizing gets the goods.
Listen to this great testimony and then write your County Commissioners to say hands off Preschool for All!
We only get nice things if we rise up to defend them.
We only get nice things if we rise up to defend them.
August 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
FULL RETREAT.
This right here! P4A taxpayers all about P4A as is!
SO PROUD of my beautiful amazing girlfriend for testifying against P4A indexing *as a* P4A taxpayer. The indexing proposal was tabled later in this meeting and everyone who spoke up contributed.
August 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This right here! P4A taxpayers all about P4A as is!
It’s time! Join @friendsofpfa.bsky.social for a rally TODAY. Then MC listening session about indexing. What’s that? Who cares. It’s not what we voted for, uses false narratives, & won’t improve programs or access. I’m a PfA mom and a certified smart person. I know indexing is the wrong question.
August 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It’s time! Join @friendsofpfa.bsky.social for a rally TODAY. Then MC listening session about indexing. What’s that? Who cares. It’s not what we voted for, uses false narratives, & won’t improve programs or access. I’m a PfA mom and a certified smart person. I know indexing is the wrong question.
Write your thoughts down!! We can do this y’all!
Thanks to everyone who has signed up to provide testimony at our Preschool for All listening session this Wednesday evening!
Speaking slots for the 2 hour event are now full, but you can still submit written testimony using this link: multco.us/info/public-...
We look forward to hearing from you.
Speaking slots for the 2 hour event are now full, but you can still submit written testimony using this link: multco.us/info/public-...
We look forward to hearing from you.
Public testimony webform
Use this form to sign up to testify before the Board, or to submit written testimony.
multco.us
August 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Write your thoughts down!! We can do this y’all!
Great thread and supporting responses sharing great information about preschool for all.
I’m testifying 8/28. Join me! If you’re nervous lmk and I will cheer you on! I’m bringing my kiddo. Preschool is closed that week. Bring yours!
I’m testifying 8/28. Join me! If you’re nervous lmk and I will cheer you on! I’m bringing my kiddo. Preschool is closed that week. Bring yours!
PDX read this explainer about the perils of Julia Brim-Edwards's janky indexing scheme for Preschool for All from @friendsofpfa.bsky.social. Then smash the button to email the Country and the link to sign up to testify at one of the august dates. mailchi.mp/e643b845b722...
We have Julia Brim-Edwards on the backfoot – let’s keep pushing!
mailchi.mp
August 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Great thread and supporting responses sharing great information about preschool for all.
I’m testifying 8/28. Join me! If you’re nervous lmk and I will cheer you on! I’m bringing my kiddo. Preschool is closed that week. Bring yours!
I’m testifying 8/28. Join me! If you’re nervous lmk and I will cheer you on! I’m bringing my kiddo. Preschool is closed that week. Bring yours!
lol I did not edit my screen shot. And look - it turned out to be a great opportunity to learn more about Friends of PfA!
🥰... our emails do contain a lot of good info! Get on the list at friendsofPFA.org to get yours!✨
Some ppl are shouting about how the preschool for all tax is driving ppl out of Multco. Here’s some information data about what ppl pay. The cost of moving would be more than this tax. If you + partner’s taxable income is 270k, you owe $1k. No one is moving for $1000.
August 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
lol I did not edit my screen shot. And look - it turned out to be a great opportunity to learn more about Friends of PfA!
Thank you Councillor for your unwavering support!
It was great to be in a room full of families and local leaders to say: we support Preschool For All! East Portland has the most families out of all the districts, so it’s very important to me that we keep growing PFA.
@friendsofpfa.bsky.social
#FriendsofPFA
@friendsofpfa.bsky.social
#FriendsofPFA
August 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Thank you Councillor for your unwavering support!
Some ppl are shouting about how the preschool for all tax is driving ppl out of Multco. Here’s some information data about what ppl pay. The cost of moving would be more than this tax. If you + partner’s taxable income is 270k, you owe $1k. No one is moving for $1000.
August 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Some ppl are shouting about how the preschool for all tax is driving ppl out of Multco. Here’s some information data about what ppl pay. The cost of moving would be more than this tax. If you + partner’s taxable income is 270k, you owe $1k. No one is moving for $1000.
Yall! We need help. Pls reach out! Even if, and maybe especially if you don’t have a kid a PfA. Don’t have kids and understand how this matters? Pay the tax and are totally fine with it? Or pay the tax and know that it on its own it’s not going to make you run away from the county? Please share!
you could even do more than this. Call them. Chalk the sidewalk outside the county building. Sky writing
Take action NOW to save Preschool for All! friendsofpfa.org/take-action
August 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Yall! We need help. Pls reach out! Even if, and maybe especially if you don’t have a kid a PfA. Don’t have kids and understand how this matters? Pay the tax and are totally fine with it? Or pay the tax and know that it on its own it’s not going to make you run away from the county? Please share!
Come help defend Preschool for all!!!
Want to help fight the attacks on Preschool for All?
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➡️ Get on the mailing list (friendsofpfa.org)
➡️ Join the coalition ✨
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➡️ Get on the mailing list (friendsofpfa.org)
➡️ Join the coalition ✨
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Update on Senate Bill 106 Close to midnight on one of the last days of the 2025 legislative session, with the governor’s support, several Oregon senators wrote a bill with a shocking amendment option ...
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August 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Come help defend Preschool for all!!!
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Here’s something that’s really great about preschool for all that I don’t see discussed. My son goes to a preschool at a local community center. Multiple community centers have them. The city now funds these programs through PFA. 1/?
August 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Here’s something that’s really great about preschool for all that I don’t see discussed. My son goes to a preschool at a local community center. Multiple community centers have them. The city now funds these programs through PFA. 1/?
Still scratching your head about the OR leg’s cuts to the housing bill? Hear @lkb-pdx.bsky.social talk about how these significant cuts will increase evictions on @opb.org’ think out loud today at 12:30!
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Housing advocates warn Oregon legislative cuts to housing and eviction prevention program will add to homeless population
We talk with Portland State University Professor Lisa Bates about the funding for homelessness and housing programs and what’s needed in her view to address the ongoing homeless and housing crisis.
www.opb.org
June 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Still scratching your head about the OR leg’s cuts to the housing bill? Hear @lkb-pdx.bsky.social talk about how these significant cuts will increase evictions on @opb.org’ think out loud today at 12:30!
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Parents at the press conference were talking about how the costs of preschool were more than their mortgage payments. We have to save this program.
A group of about four dozen parents, preschool teachers and advocates gathered in front of Escuela Viva in Southeast Portland Wednesday morning for a press conference, urging Gov. Tina Kotek stop threatening Multnomah County’s universal preschool program.
Coalition of Groups Tell Kotek To Take Her Hands off Preschool for All
Joanna Hou
www.wweek.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Parents at the press conference were talking about how the costs of preschool were more than their mortgage payments. We have to save this program.
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Portland, tomorrow if you can please head out to this press conference sponsored by Oregon @workingfamilies.org to say Hands off Preschool for All!!! www.mobilize.us/oregonworkin...
June 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Portland, tomorrow if you can please head out to this press conference sponsored by Oregon @workingfamilies.org to say Hands off Preschool for All!!! www.mobilize.us/oregonworkin...
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Made it to Salem (making calls on the way) to defend Preschool for All against an unconscionable, undemocratic attempt to kill Preschool for All.
As of now, over 23,000 emails have been sent in support of Preschool for All.
Thank you to everyone who has spoke out. Please keep it up!
As of now, over 23,000 emails have been sent in support of Preschool for All.
Thank you to everyone who has spoke out. Please keep it up!
June 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Made it to Salem (making calls on the way) to defend Preschool for All against an unconscionable, undemocratic attempt to kill Preschool for All.
As of now, over 23,000 emails have been sent in support of Preschool for All.
Thank you to everyone who has spoke out. Please keep it up!
As of now, over 23,000 emails have been sent in support of Preschool for All.
Thank you to everyone who has spoke out. Please keep it up!
Hearing starts at 1. PfA informational hearing is last.
Here's who you need to write and call RIGHT NOW to protest the attempt to kill Preschool for All at 1pm today. This is the Senate Finance Committee driving this effort on behalf of the governor and the wealthiest people in the Portland metro area. www.wweek.com/news/schools...
June 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hearing starts at 1. PfA informational hearing is last.
Also! PfA put a lot of work into recruiting providers or color and bilingual programs. Those schools now depend on that funding. They are recruiting and training more people to provide care. One major hurdle to preschool? A work force. PfA is creating that.
Here's who you need to write and call RIGHT NOW to protest the attempt to kill Preschool for All at 1pm today. This is the Senate Finance Committee driving this effort on behalf of the governor and the wealthiest people in the Portland metro area. www.wweek.com/news/schools...
June 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Also! PfA put a lot of work into recruiting providers or color and bilingual programs. Those schools now depend on that funding. They are recruiting and training more people to provide care. One major hurdle to preschool? A work force. PfA is creating that.
First trip to Powell’s! First book grabbed off shelf and read on their own.
June 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
First trip to Powell’s! First book grabbed off shelf and read on their own.
It’s Harry Potter costume time!
June 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It’s Harry Potter costume time!
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HHS set up a snitch line to report trans kids and their providers. You know what to do...
www.hhs.gov/protect-kids...
www.hhs.gov/protect-kids...
www.hhs.gov
April 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
HHS set up a snitch line to report trans kids and their providers. You know what to do...
www.hhs.gov/protect-kids...
www.hhs.gov/protect-kids...
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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
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Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight
March 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight