that claimed the lives of two young pilots and left another critically injured has been attributed to training error and inadequate supervision according to a final report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) killing 20-year-old Barrett Bevacqua and 22-year-old Michele Cavallotti was airlifted to a Portland hospital with critical injuries The NTSB report "The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The pilot receiving instruction’s failure to maintain control of the airplane and the flight instructor’s inadequate supervision of the flight which resulted in a stall/spin from which they were unable to recover." PAST COVERAGE: 2 dead, 1 injured in plane crash into Newberg home; plane registered to Hillsboro Aero Academy The report detailed that the pilots were practicing techniques such as "slow flight Vmc is the minimal calibrated airspeed at which it is possible to maintain control of the airplane after the sudden critical loss of thrust During the Vmc demonstration they undertook and the airplane almost immediately went inverted to the left the pilot receiving instruction remained on the flight controls verbalizing the steps he was taking to try to stop the spin but she could not understand what he was saying The pilot receiving instruction then asked the flight instructor to take control of the airplane According to the Federal Aviation Administration official handbook for pilots warns that if a twin-engine airplane is moving too slowly with only one engine going Barrett Bevacqua's family has filed a $27 million wrongful death lawsuit in January this year against Hillsboro Aero Academy The lawsuit claims that the instructor allowed the aircraft to slow below safe speeds when most kids were watching 'Finding Nemo,' he was watching 'Top Gun.'" He added "God chose him to be a pilot so that he could see heaven closer than anybody else." READ ALSO: Loved ones hold vigil for Barrett Bevacqua, who died in Newberg plane crash "Living in an apartment with close friends he was doing everything he had wanted to do." The family continues to mourn the loss of Barrett who had recently passed his commercial license test and was on his way to achieving his dreams Toxicology testing for both the flight instructor and the pilot receiving instruction was performed at the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Forensic Sciences Laboratory and found no drugs of abuse George Fox University will record interviews this summer with longtime local citizens as part of a digital humanities project that has been funded by the Council of Independent Colleges’ Humanities Research for the Public Good program and the Mellon Foundation George Fox launched its online Mapping Our History project in 2022 This project highlights the history of Newberg’s downtown district by mapping addresses of East First Street and including business timelines and photographs.  Last month, George Fox was awarded $2,500 to purchase podcasting equipment, signage, and marketing materials. The University Archivist will staff a booth at various Newberg festivals in the summer of 2025 where participants can engage in short-form oral history interviews. These interviews will be added to the university’s institutional repository (Digital Commons) as a part of the Mapping Our History project.  The Newberg-Dundee school district recently received the results of an investigation into allegations that former superintendent Steve Phillips failed to appropriately oversee the district's budget Courtesy of Newberg Neighbors for a Better School Board according to a new report commissioned by the district former superintendent of the Dallas School District and Willamette Education Service District to investigate complaints about Phillips’ performance newly obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive under a public records request found that Phillips fumbled financial management of the district and repeatedly used racist and derogatory language in reference to students The report also said that Phillips knowingly reported false or misleading information to the school board and state officials telling them the district was in compliance with state education mandates despite receiving information to the contrary from his own staff Phillips generally denied the accusations against him Newberg-Dundee Public Schools has experienced turmoil for years, dating back to fall 2021 when a group of conservative-leaning school board members voted to ban teachers from displaying LGBTQ+ pride or Black Lives Matters flags in their classrooms Newberg-Dundee’s flag ban was eventually ruled unconstitutional by a Yamhill County judge and voters elected a more liberal slate of school board members School board members used the Novotney report to fire Phillips for cause the district was on the hook for paying him his full salary and benefits for two years for firing him without cause At the time Phillips went on medical leave, his salary was $215,000 Phillips’ attorney Nathan Rietmann wrote in an email that the outcome of the investigation “was determined before it ever began.” Rietmann claimed the school district hired Novotney an “investigator with close ties to the district,” in order to influence the outcome of the investigation Rietmann pointed out the district originally hired a different entity to conduct the investigation; Novotney wrote in his report that the original investigator became ill and was unable to complete the work “The district has been on a political witch hunt aimed at causing maximum damage to Dr Phillips for the better part of a year,” Rietmann wrote which included interviews with 27 people and several hundred emails and documents found that Phillips had no regular formal check-ins with Heather Bixby to make sure the district was on track with its budget An employee whose name was blacked out from the copy of the report obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive told the investigator that “the overspending that occurred in the district during Dr Phillips’ tenure could have been detected much earlier if Dr Phillips and Heather Bixby had simply met on a regular basis to review expenditures.” Phillips told Novotney that he had regular “pop-in” meetings with Bixby But Phillips’ lack of regular scheduled meetings with Bixby was in contrast to his biweekly meetings with a project manager to check on progress on the district’s bond-funded construction projects A consultant who worked for the district in 2024 to determine the severity of its budget deficit reported that there were several glaring examples of Phillips’ lack of oversight including that the budget proposal for the current school year contained revenue that did not actually exist and that Phillips did not slow down hiring or spending despite a decline in student enrollment State school funding is largely linked to enrollment so a consistent decline in students means a district will ultimately receive less money from the state Bixby alone had the ability to monitor the district’s entire budget during Phillips’ tenure because district administrators did not have access to view and monitor their department budgets It was unclear from the report why the administrators were not allowed to view their department budgets during this time Phillips and Bixby failed to use a key tool in the district’s financial management system that could have prevented the district from overspending If they had used the “budget blocking” tool it would have prevented the special education department from spending $1.9 million on contracted services when only $20,000 was budgeted according to one person Novotney interviewed “Not implementing this feature in (the financial management system) was a major factor that contributed to significant overspending in the district,” Novotney wrote Novotney also determined through interviews with two first-hand witnesses that Phillips used racist and derogatory language repeatedly in private meetings to reference white students Phillips denied that in his interview with Novotney But Novotney concluded the witness reports were credible Phillips misleadingly told the state that the district was in compliance the previous year with state K-12 schools requirements district staff had informed him the district had fallen short of the required minutes for physical education and inconsistently administered a districtwide assessment of students’ academic skills A district employee said Phillips told her that he had spoken with other superintendents and “they all agree that nobody actually reports out of compliance.” Phillips denied knowingly reporting false or misleading information to the state or district board Novotney investigated seven allegations against Phillips and found two to be unsubstantiated the investigator did not find evidence that Phillips endeavored to “blacklist” or negatively impact the employment of a former spokesperson for the district Novotney was also unable to thoroughly investigate the seventh complaint: whether Phillips misled Newberg-Dundee school board members about his knowledge that a teacher in Clatsop County’s Jewell School District was allegedly sexually abusing a 14-year-old student Phillips was an administrator in the district for several years the student filed a federal lawsuit against the district alleging that Phillips and other administrators knew about the abuse and didn’t promptly intervene which made it possible for the teacher in question to quietly transfer to a different school district Novotney said he was unable to fully investigate the allegation that Phillips misled the Newberg-Dundee school board on this matter because Phillips was advised by one of his lawyers not to answer questions on the matter that Phillips cooperated with law enforcement investigating the alleged abuse and gave them evidence that was “instrumental” in advancing the case it was likely Phillips reported the teacher’s abuse to Oregon’s Teacher Standards and Practices Commission as required but the state commission would not confirm whether he did 24 to reflect that the school board used the report to fire Phillips for cause — Hillary Borrud is an investigative reporter. 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We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. 2024 2:09 a.m.Phillips filed a lawsuit against the district on Tuesday the Newberg school board placed Phillips on administrative leave pending an internal investigation.Stephen Phillips is suing Newberg-Dundee Public Schools for up to $2.5 million In a civil complaint filed to the Yamhill County Circuit Court Tuesday wrongfully blamed him for the district’s financial woes and is not properly executing his contract the seven-member Newberg school board placed Phillips on administrative leave OPB reached out to the district and school board for comment on the lawsuit Neither is commenting at this time other than to confirm Tuesday night’s vote The superintendent’s lawsuit is the latest conflict for a school district that’s seen years of turmoil The mid-Willamette Valley district, which enrolls about 4,100 students, made national news back in 2021 when its board banned teachers from displaying symbols supporting LGBTQ+ pride Black Lives Matter and other “political” signs The board fired then-Superintendent Joe Morelock that November, technically without cause, though many close to the issue have said it was because he was not aggressively implementing the symbols ban Though Oregon school boards are nonpartisan, the board was considered to have a conservative majority, described in an Oregon Capital Chronicle commentary as “an activist conservative slate of trustees.” That changed with the May 2023 election in which five seats were filled by candidates considered more moderate or liberal was selected as the new superintendent in May 2022 by the Newberg board’s then-conservative majority He came to the district with baggage. Phillips was forced to resign in 2018 from his role as deputy superintendent in the Beaverton School District after retweeting a false statement that claimed “illegal aliens” kill thousands of Americans every year and are “more dangerous than assault rifles.” The federal suit claimed the former Jewell administrators failed to properly protect a then-14-year-old student in the district from a predatory teacher who has since been imprisoned The recent lawsuit says some Newberg community members wanted to terminate Phillips in response to this “without any regard for the facts of that case.” Phillips’ time leading Newberg has also been criticized This spring, a roughly $13 million budget gap affecting this past school year and the 2024-25 budget arose unexpectedly just a couple of weeks before the state budget deadline Phillips announced then that he would be on medical leave for two months Former Newberg Superintendent Paula Radich — who financially supported the political campaigns of the newly elected school board members — became the interim superintendent Phillips did not respond to repeated requests for comment in June the lawsuit released this week gives a glimpse into his side of the story Phillips’ lawsuit against the district outlines many of the same events in Newberg leading up to his hiring and the lingering effects once he began the role The narrative outlined in the lawsuit often shows Phillip at the center of a culture war the political division within [Newberg’s] staff and community was immediately apparent,” the lawsuit states “Roughly half of the community and most of the teachers’ union politically identifying as ‘liberal’ were extremely distrustful … from the outset because the ‘conservative’ school board had hired [Phillips] “following the prior superintendent’s termination The lawsuit says Phillips made multiple attempts to unify the community such as creating small committee “think tanks” made up of equal numbers of “liberal” and “conservative” community members to brainstorm ideas “Regardless of how conservative or liberal people might be everyone wants their children to excel in the core academic areas,” the suit says The lawsuit then walks through the next several months of Phillips’ employment including his receiving positive feedback from the board and his and his wife buying a home in Newberg in August of last year Though other things were happening behind the scenes and tension was building things largely came to a head with the financial problems this spring FILE-(Left to right) Director of Human Resources Scott Linenberger The school board read a statement blaming Phillips for the crisis The lawsuit said one board member who previously took issue with Phillips joined the student protest [Phillips] had reasonably relied on information from the business manager regarding the budget and did not know there was a crisis until shortly before the board was informed at the meeting in May,” it states [the] budget manager has stated in writing that [Philips] did not have prior knowledge of the budget shortfall and could not have.” Phillips later brought in the Oregon Association of Business Officials to fix the budget crisis in time for the state deadline The stress of the events leading up to June adversely affected Phillips’ health Phillips was prematurely told to pack up his office He was later given a one-year notice, as required by his contract and Oregon law that they were firing him without cause — and that they’d be continuing their search to find cause The lawsuit says the board threatened — before he was put on paid leave this Tuesday — to put Phillips in a different position in the district over the course of his remaining time with them The suit says the board threatened to deprive him of the pay he is entitled to under the terms of his contract The lawsuit also claims the school board met in executive session to talk about Phillips’ performance without properly announcing it or notifying Phillips It claims the board did not give written notice that they were at all dissatisfied with his work leading up to his firing have impaired Phillips’ ability to perform his duties under his contract damaged his reputation and lost him sick leave and opportunities for other employment Phillips is pushing for the district to properly enforce his contract or pay up to $2.5 million in damages Related: Read the full lawsuit here. Tags: Education, Newberg Stand with OPB and protect independent journalism for everyone Listen to the OPB News live stream (opens new window)Streaming Now a project following a group of students from kindergarten to high school graduation She came to OPB in 2019 to cover K-12 education Elizabeth hosted Season 2 of OPB's \"Class of 2025\" podcast and was part of the award-winning production team for \"Class of 2025: Freshman Year.\" She previously covered the environment and the Great Lakes for Ideastream Public Media in Cleveland Elizabeth has also served as mentor for NPR's Next Generation Radio project which she also participated in as an early-career journalist in 2016 Elizabeth is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace University Elizabeth Miller covers education for OPB with a special focus on the Class of 2025 the district does not admit liability but has agreed to make a public statement affirming its commitment to creating an “inclusive school and work environment.”Jozie Donaghey .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLiveThe Newberg School District has agreed to pay $90,000 to settle a whistleblower suit filed by a teacher who said the district retaliated against her for advocating for LGBTQ+ students the district does not admit liability but has agreed to make a public statement affirming its commitment to creating an “inclusive school and work environment.” It also will post discrimination complaint forms on its website and print complaint forms in school counselors’ offices by the beginning of the 2025-26 school year Eileen Brennock of Tigard alleged that Mountain View Middle School Principal Terry McElligot told staff during a Sept meeting something to the effect of “it’s not okay to tell kids it’s okay to be gay or trans,” according to the suit also told staff they should not display any Pride or Black Lives Matter signs or flags if they had not put them up before to avoid appearing as if they were trying to “poke the bear,” the suit said “Brennock bravely reported anti-LGBTQ+ comments made by her principal,” her lawyer Diane Sykes wrote in the suit Brennock reported to the assistant principal what she heard the principal tell staff it was not OK to support LGBTQ+ students But Kopacek told her the principal never made such a statement and suggested that Brennock was hearing something that was never uttered “due to cortisol and stress levels” in her body responded to Kopacek that if a student came out as gay to her she would not tell them “it’s not okay,” but rather say to the student “me too!” Kopacek then cautioned Brennock that she could get in serious trouble and the district subsequently subjected Brennock to a hostile work environment who taught Spanish at Mountain View Middle School filed a grievance with the school district regarding the principal’s alleged statements but the district ruled that the remarks could not be substantiated Brennock then filed a complaint with the Oregon Department of Education which issued a preliminary order in Brennock’s favor finding that the district had more likely than not violated state anti-discrimination laws The district entered into a “conciliation agreement” with Brennock to remedy the discrimination complaint but then subjected Brennock to continuing harassment in violation of the agreement the state Education Department found the district had violated the agreement by undermining staff training on LGBTQ+ issues and surveys of LGBTQ+ students and teachers which were both required as part of the conciliation agreement the district agreed to move Brennock to Chehalem Valley Middle School but also told her she wouldn’t be able to return to Mountain View Middle School because her position there was being eliminated The district argued that the principal never said what was alleged in a staff meeting the remark was not discriminatory because it was “not intended to be” and was never intended to be a directive to staff But the Education Department said in its ruling: “The district misunderstands what constitutes discrimination under the law.” Any act that unreasonably differentiates treatment age or disability violates Oregon’s anti-discrimination law The principal’s alleged comments “clearly articulated that teacher conduct toward students belonging to certain protected classes should be different than conduct toward other students” and subjected teachers who supported “the Pride and Black Lives Matter movement” and LGBTQ+ students to different rules than support for other movements,” the department found Brennock argued that the district thwarted steps it was supposed to take to educate staff about LGBTQ+ issues by “constantly undermining and ridiculing the staff” about the information they presented and releasing information about the LGBTQ+ status of training presenters despite prior conversations about the sensitivity of such details The district also changed the wording of the agreed-upon introduction of the anti-discrimination presentation referring to sexual orientation/gender identity as a “lifestyle” and that people who identify as LGBTQ+ are from the “opposite side of the fence,” according to the suit It also claimed that then-Superintendent Stephens Phillips used a gay slur and said he did not understand how that word was any different from a vulgar term for someone’s buttocks and said something along the lines of “I’ve had a lot of kids and when it’s a boy argued in court papers that Phillips was entitled to qualified immunity from the allegations in the suit who took over as superintendent in May 2022 this year filed his own civil suit against the Newberg-Dundee Public School district in Yamhill County Circuit Court alleges the district falsely blamed him for a budget crisis and he took a medical leave in June because the stress was harming his health He asked his deputy superintendent to lead the district until his return the board named its own interim superintendent and ultimately voted in late June to give Phillips a one year notice that it ended to terminate him without cause he pointed to an outside investigator the district hired to look into complaints against him and his deputy superintendent related to “highly charged LGBTQ issues.” He said the investigator found that neither he nor his deputy superintendent had broken any policy or law or engaged in discrimination -- Maxine Bernstein covers federal court and criminal justice. Reach her at 503-221-8212, mbernstein@oregonian.com, follow her on X @maxoregonian, or on LinkedIn Our journalism needs your support. Subscribe today to OregonLive.com PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The family of a Hillsboro man who died in a 2023 plane crash is suing the flight academy and airline associated with the test flight that crashed into a Newberg home The family of Barrett Bevacqua filed a $27 million wrongful death case against Hillsboro Aero Academy (HAA) and their joint pilot training program Ascend Pilot Academy in Multnomah County court on Monday for a training flight with an instructor and one other passenger It fell over 5,000 feet at a rate of over 8,000 feet per minute knew they were in trouble and were going to crash and die," the complaint states The lawsuit claims Bevacqua and the instructor may have been practicing slow-moving maneuvers to train in multiengine aircraft. The NTSB noted in its preliminary crash report that "slow flight" practice is "common" for multiengine training It claims that the instructor "allowed the aircraft to slow down below safe and permissible .. which caused the aircraft to enter an aerodynamic stall resulting in a spin." Alaska Airlines told KATU News it does not comment on pending litigation adding: "Horizon Air partners with Hillsboro Aero Academy as part of the Ascend Pilot Academy Bevacqua was enrolled at the time of this training accident in 2023 Bevacqua’s passing and continue to extend our deepest condolences to his family and friends." Hillsboro Aero Academy has not yet returned a request for comment Share on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInNEWBERG Ore police found the bodies of two men inside a car submerged in the Willamette River in Newberg Newberg police got missing person reports from the families of 40-year-old Benigno Hermenegildo-Pascuala and 39-year-old Eufracio Lopez de Jesus the two were reportedly last seen on the night of November 24 in Newberg Witnesses also reported that the two were in a heated argument that evening Police used data from the men’s cell phones to determine the last place they were as Roger’s Landing County Park in Newberg and on Nov 26 police used an underwater camera and found the car submerged in the river Benigno and Eufracio were both found dead inside the car Police said they don’t yet know how the men died “Harvest is the smallest thing that affects wildlife “I think in the next five years coho will be delisted … I really hope Oregon throws a big party.” “Hatcheries are absolutely vital for opportunity and conservation.” “We use the data to try and keep fisheries open as much as possible.” “We have a wolf that is wreaking havoc in an area of tough winter conditions and they’re calving.” “A lot of credit goes to hunters.” Those are some of the soundbites from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Debbie Colbert as she taped a podcast with famed public lands, conservation and hunting advocate Randy Newberg on Saturday afternoon at the Pacific Northwest Sportsmen’s Show in Portland • The critical importance of healthy connected habitats – winter and summer range and migratory corridors – for deer and elk; • Her optimism that Oregon Coast coho will be removed from the Endangered Species Act following decades of work • The importance of state and federal fish production which in part fuels 70 percent of Oregon’s harvest of anadromous species; • How creel sampling helps squeeze as much angling opportunity out of highly complex fisheries like the Columbia; • The restricted toolbox for managing chronic wolf depredations in the federally listed two-thirds of the state; • Pittman-Robertson Act excise tax moneys from hunters and other shooters that helped fund the purchase of the 16,000-plus-acre Minam Wildlife Area from Manulife creating a Yellowstone-sized block of contiguous public land in Northeast Oregon; • And what she sees as ODFW’s primary job for without conserving populations of game you can’t even begin to talk opportunity or quality hunts in the first place I don’t want to steal too much of Newberg’s thunder for when he posts the hour-and-a-half-long interview taped in the Green Theatre of the Expo Center I heard a lot I liked in Colbert’s words Now in her eighth month as ODFW’s first female director she expressed wide-ranging knowledge of Oregon’s fish and wildlife species and the strongest factors impacting their longterm viability and thus our ability to harvest them; the wild complexity of trying to manage those opportunities in the face of ESA listings treaty rights and the folding in of new tribal management and degrading environmental conditions; the successes and less so of focused predator management; and support for hunters and fishermen as not only funders of more than half the agency’s budget but as conservation partners who are providing key data on fisheries it was also pretty darned imperative that Colbert hit all the right notes what with ODFW this legislative session asking state lawmakers for a license fee increase and $20 million for hatchery investments And there were some hot button issues that weren’t addressed – Columbia Basin endorsement funds and barbless hooks on the big river; Army Corps of Engineers’ court-mandated actions at Willamette Valley reservoirs that will probably lead to the end of another kokanee fishery Host Newberg had reams of questions taken from the public but couldn’t get to all of them in the allotted time it was an interesting Q&A with a great storyteller (Newberg wasn’t too impressed with Portland’s inch of snow or the two-hour wait for an Uber from his hotel to the show before finally hitching a ride with someone) and interviewer and it should make for a really good podcast when it is posted And that’s gonna have to be all the time I have for that as I try to land this next issue before deadline – holy !$#!$ (KATU) — Four suspects were arrested after an alleged armed robbery at a hotel in Newberg on Thursday Police responded to the Best Western Newberg Inn located in the 2200 block of Portland Road early Thursday morning after a guest called 911 reporting that they had been robbed The victim gave descriptions of the alleged robbers to dispatch officers pulled over a car that was leaving the hotel Four people matching the description of the suspects were ultimately arrested READ ALSO: Oregon police arrest 27-year-old sex offender posing as teen to enroll in high school The suspects have been identified as 30-year-old John Donnahoo They were call booked into the Yamhill County Jail on complaints of first-degree robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery in the first degree Donnahoo is also facing a complaint for an outstanding warrant At least two of the suspects knew the victim The victim was not injured during the robbery