Concerns about mission creep, a lack of focus, time-consuming meetings and uncertainty about the overall value of the organization’s work led Multnomah County school district leaders to sever ties with educational equity nonprofit All Hands Raised, several superintendents said this week.
“The unblemished take that I have [on All Hands Raised] is that it appears to me that they are overinflating their value,” James Owens, superintendent of the Centennial School District, told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “They’re taking credit for work that’s done in districts that they’re either lightly contributing to or not contributing to at all, and piggybacking off of those efforts for fundraising.”