The influential executive director of the Oregon School Boards Association is on paid administrative leave at his own request, after internal tensions erupted over the group’s handling of a whistleblower complaint.
The now-sidelined leader, Jim Green, spent three decades helping shape education policy behind the scenes in Salem, representing school boards in the bare-knuckled biannual fight for a piece of the state budget pie and debates over changes to the runaway costs of the Public Employees Retirement System.