Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I can my mind changed! But I need data that is interpreted and discussed from multiple perspectives. There’s lots of missing data and impacts. I need robust community engagement focused on most impacted. Slowing down can provide that. Some schools will close. But lay out the data, argument, & talk. 100
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 13/10/2026What is the definition of process? This is a formed plan with input invited. That’s pretty low on the Arnstein ladder of participation in a city committed to more robust engagement. It’s def an F on equity. 100
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 13/10/2026How many people will leave or not enroll in future DLI programs? For both English learners and Spanish learners? 100
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Can we reconsider neighborhood? Why not move JJ and Sitton to Cesar Chávez? Leave their English only classes there too. Just a bigger neighborhood! 100
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Have options and impacts been considered area by area? Shared rationales don’t make sense place to place. What about impacts on CBD? James John is integrated into the CBD. What alternatives have been been explored? Colocating PfA? Youth serving nonprofits? 100
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I am open to revising my position if the teachers, families, and students teaching and learning in their native language. Based on who I have been able to speak all to have said no to not being with neighborhood schools. 110
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 13/10/2026What do English learners think about being clustered together? What do their families think? Not being integrated into their neighborhood schools? How has this input been collected? How many students and families have PPS spoken to? What security plans will protect Spanish immersion from ICE? 100
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 13/10/2026First my position. Deeply under utilized schools should close. Idk what that number is or definition of under utilized. There should be lots of discussions about how to do that. DLI should not from neighborhood schools and isolated at 1 school. Slow this down and workshop ideas with community. 100
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 13/10/2026PPS is proposing closing 14 elementary & middle schools. PPS and some school board members are PR documents with cherry picked data. Some questions & clarifications follow! Is this about savings? Listening to PPS board chair on TOL on @opb.org & he is going back to $. Thread follows… 121
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I know this man’s daughther - Cristina Castaño. He has lost his housing and business they are only trying to a few thousand dollars maybe you can help them reach their goal. ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-fa...gofundme.comDonate to Help My Family After Colombia Earthquake, organized by Jorge CastanoMartinezDear Friends and Community, Our family is facing an unprecedented cr… Jorge CastanoMartinez needs your support for Help My Family After Colombia Earthquake 010
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Becky was a gentle person with a beautiful spirit. I’m grateful I got to spend time with her, and that she chose to be a part of the Pathways project. Thank you @alexzee.bsky.social for this story. 010
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Oh hey! That’s a good quote that I don’t remember saying (interview was awhile ago). Thanks for sharing @emily-vwg.bsky.social! 010
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Sign up for PFA. An amazing and game changing resource. ❤️ 061
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 02/03/2026A vision of integrating housing for people who are not wealthily with transit and environmental justice. 010
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Mayor of San Diego bringing it at @naehomelessness.bsky.social leadership conference - our biggest issue to end and prevent homelessness is not enough housing! 120
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Here’s something! I was POLLED about this case. They changed some details but def had to be this case. I took it in the last week!The poll was focused on the hospitals responsibility. I’ve Never seen a poll about a legal case! 011
Reposted by Marisa ZapataChris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Leading up to that.. Eric Lee Atty Kids screaming "Let us out! Let us out!" 511726789
Reposted by Marisa Zapatamolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence. 241273899831
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Be still my heart @councilordunphy.bsky.social. The city that plans not the city that works. My research in a nutshell. ❤️ 020
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 07/01/2026One year, when I taught in the real estate grad program, I started with the stereotype of The Evil Developer. I worked with a planner who kept a list of movies that featured evil developers or development. Then one of their assignments was to create the hero developer. 110
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Almost exactly 18k saved in this household thanks to PfA. ❤️ 040
Reposted by Marisa ZapataFriends of Preschool for All @friendsofpfa.bsky.social · 05/12/2025📣She’s at it again! The governor is selling out toddlers for tax cuts for top earners. Join our rally Monday from 11:30-1 at the Convention Center, 777 NE MLK, to demand Preschool for All be rolled out as approved 2:1 by voters! RSVP and bring friends! actionnetwork.org/events/prote...actionnetwork.orgProtest: Tell Kotek Hands of Preschool for All!Governor Kotek is cozying up to big business yet again. Bring your friends and PFA supporters to tell her to save PFA! 2169
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 01/12/2025First Santa sighting of the year! Oregon rail heritage foundation for the win! 010
Reposted by Marisa ZapataLydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Want 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...portland.gov 0122
Reposted by Marisa ZapataPortland Jobs with Justice @jwjpdx.bsky.social · 23/08/2025We are dealing with extreme heat in Multnomah County. 🥵 The following libraries will have extended hours today: 164
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Grateful 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. 041
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 22/08/2025This right here! P4A taxpayers all about P4A as is! 063
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 20/08/2025It’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. 021
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Write your thoughts down!! We can do this y’all! 010
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Great 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! 082
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 16/08/2025And rollout of any major program is going to be tough, let alone during COVID. As a mom to a 4.5 year old in a PfA school, I can offer ideas for improvement, but at the end of the day the moms I know and myself will take free and govt backed/monitored in a heartbeat. 040
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 15/08/2025lol I did not edit my screen shot. And look - it turned out to be a great opportunity to learn more about Friends of PfA! 010
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Thank you Councillor for your unwavering support! 1122
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Some 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. 2316
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Yall! 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! 073
Reposted by Marisa Zapataemily @emicue.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Here’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/? 1173
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Still 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...opb.orgHousing advocates warn Oregon legislative cuts to housing and eviction prevention program will add to homeless populationWe 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. 010
Reposted by Marisa ZapataTaylor Unswift @10tgibs.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Parents at the press conference were talking about how the costs of preschool were more than their mortgage payments. We have to save this program. 063
Reposted by Marisa ZapataLydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Portland, 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...mobilize.us📣 Defend Preschool for All – Stop SB 106 · Oregon Working Families Party## Join parents, educators, and working families for an urgent press conference to defend Multnomah County’s Preschool for All program. The program we voted for by 64% of voters is under direct attac... 11310
Reposted by Marisa ZapataJessica Vega Pederson @jvegapederson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Made 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! 411816
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Hearing starts at 1. PfA informational hearing is last. 000
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Also! 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. 183
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Protest in Salem? I will take a vacation day, protest, and bring my kiddo and drop him with one of these electeds for the day. 1111
Marisa Zapata @marisazapata.bsky.social · 14/06/2025First trip to Powell’s! First book grabbed off shelf and read on their own. 000
