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SALEM â A $9.3 billion plan to fund Oregon schools for the next two years is headed to the state House after the Senate passed it on a bipartisan vote with little debate Tuesday, May 25. The state school fund budget includes $300 million more than necessary to maintain current level K-12 services and programs, legislative analysts said. That proposed funding level sparked controversy earlier this month, when Gov. Kate Brown sent a letter to legislative leaders urging them not to pump more money into the stateâs funding system in which districts receive formula-based distributions to spend as they decide. Advocates for educational equity have been pushing for the state to overhaul the funding system to target more investments to historically underserved students, including children in poverty and students of color. ....
Opinion: Commitment to equity means changing how we spend education dollars Updated Mar 14, 2021; Posted Mar 14, 2021 The success of targeted education spending shows a fatal flaw in the current formula for school funding, the author writes. Money meant to address equity needs is instead merged with general school spending, failing to reach the students it was meant for. Photo by Michael Lloyd/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian Facebook Share Toya Fick Fick is the Oregon executive director of Stand for Children and serves as chair of the Meyer Memorial Trust’s Board of Trustees. She lives in Portland. In the past six years, Oregon’s high school graduation rate has increased by 10 percentage points. Last year’s graduating class hit an all-time high with the largest improvements among historically underserved students. ....
Superintendents from Portland and Gresham, along with the state’s director of early childhood education, spoke about some of the ways the pandemic has changed the field. ....
Gresham, Portland education leaders reflect on the institutional inequities we ve discovered this past year. If the snowfall seen Friday Feb. 12 had occurred in any other academic year, it s likely most metro area schools would be closed for a snow day. After 11 months of remote learning brought on suddenly by the COVID-19 pandemic, for many students in the Portland area it was just another school day. The ability to teach and learn remotely is one of a handful of bright spots and takeaways from the past year, touched on by Oregon education and early childhood learning leaders during a Portland City Club conversation Friday, Feb. 12. The conversation, dubbed State of Education, featured host Toya Fick, Oregon s executive director of Stand For Children. Fick was joined by Portland Public Schools Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero, Gresham Barlow School District Superintendent Katrise Perera and Miriam Calderon, early learning system director for the state of Oregon. ....