Source note: This article primarily draws on an eight-page final disciplinary order issued by Oregon’s Teacher Standards and Practices Commission. The document contains details on the license revocation, overlapping Blachly and Corvallis teaching jobs, Albany sexual harassment findings, and Salem-Keizer employment issues.
Crescent Valley’s football program started the school year with a $5,000 prize offer and high hopes of competing for a $1 million field upgrade through T-Mobile’s Friday Night 5G Lights competition.
By August, the school had withdrawn. By late October, the head coach of the high school football team resigned.
(Photo: Jovan Stevenson in a promotional graphic posted by Crescent Valley Football/Source Crescent Valley Football social media))
As we reported about the competition in August, the school said it could not commit to the competition’s requirements during the school year.
No, we are not establishing a connection here between the contest withdrawal and the case involving coach Jovan Stevenson. They seem to be two separate incidents. But it does make you wonder what might have happened… if the school stayed in the competition… a competition built around social media, and a brand.
State records show Stevenson signed an agreement accepting the revocation of his Oregon educator license on September 17th. A month later, the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission revoked it.
The eight-page state order documents sexual harassment of an adult coworker in Albany, overlapping teaching jobs that involve a Corvallis middle school, a failure to disclose employment and criminal history, and a marijuana-related workplace investigation.
For Crescent Valley High School, the document leaves a few questions unanswered.
Stevenson’s promotion had been part of an effort to rebuild the Raiders. In February of 2025, High School On SI reported that Crescent Valley elevated him from JV2 head coach. Being a former Oregon State running back and cornerback, he brought a local football connection to the job.
The state order does document employment problems predating that promotion, including one problem involving a Corvallis school itself.
During the 2022–2023 school year, Stevenson held a full-time online teaching position with Blachly School District while also working as a 0.6 full-time-equivalent health teacher at Linus Pauling Middle School. According to the order, his contracted hours overlapped.
Blachly School District found this out and told Stevenson that another job could not interfere with his teaching schedule. The order says he continued to work at the Linus Pauling Middle School position. Which violated his contract. Blachly placed him on administrative leave on May 10th, 2023.
That same day, Stevenson applied for a health teacher position with the Corvallis School District and answered “no” to the application questions about being the subject of an inquiry or investigation.
The more serious findings concern his subsequent work at Memorial Middle School in the Greater Albany Public School District.
According to the order, a female staff member reported that Stevenson touched her genital area in a hallway on February 25th, 2025. She also reported receiving a text from him asking whether she had felt the contact.
Albany administrators immediately placed Stevenson on leave and directed him not to contact the woman. The order says he then sent another text apologizing and asking her to contact him.
He resigned on April 28th, rather than being terminated. The commission concluded that the conduct constituted gross neglect of duty, including a violation of its sexual harassment standard.
A year later, during an April 29th, 2026, interview with state investigators, Stevenson acknowledged what happened and said “he intended the text as a joke between friends,” according to the stipulated findings.
The document also describes problems at Salem-Keizer Public Schools when Stevenson failed to disclose his Blachly resignation, in lieu of termination. That part is important. The order also records a March 2024 guilty plea to second-degree criminal mischief arising from an Albany road-rage incident.
In a separate matter at Willamette Education Service District, coworkers reported that Stevenson smelled of marijuana on October 22nd, 2025. A drug test came back positive. According to the order, he was allowed to return and received a written reprimand.
The disciplinary case also reached a private school in Philomath. In an October 28 report by Katie Livermore of the Statesman Journal, Roots Christian School founder Gerry Alston confirmed that Stevenson was dismissed on October 27th from his kindergarten and first grade teaching position, hours after the newspaper published its initial report about his license revocation.
It has not yet been confirmed exactly when Stevenson resigned as head football coach at Crescent Valley High School, but sources point to “late October.”
It should be very well noted… Stevenson has a history… as shown above… to resign before termination or possible disciplinary measures. And resign he did.
Let’s state the obvious accountability question concerning the district’s decisions.
What employment information did the district obtain before promoting Stevenson to head coach? Was there a disclosure document? And if there was… did Stevenson choose not to disclose? Much like he has done in the past.
Hindsight can often be 20/20. But not so much in this case. What would have happened if the school district had moved forward with the T-Mobile Friday Night 5G Lights competition?
It might have been a different kind of “5G,” not measured in network speeds… but the speed of public scrutiny: gossip, grievances, gaffes, groans, and grief.
The PDF of the final disciplinary order issued by Oregon’s Teacher Standards and Practices Commission can be found here.
This article was written and researched by Derek S. and Brian Lindensmith, contributors to The Corvallis Inquirer. Feel free to send us your stories or articles to publish at: editor@corvallisnow.com
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