Op-Ed: To Improve K-12, Look to Oregon's State School Fund
In The Oregonian, FBO's Whitney Grubbs urges state leaders to apply the Student Success Act's equity-driven approach across the lion's share of public education funding.
06/08/22 ∞ MIN READ
Whitney Grubbs is Executive Director of Foundations for a Better Oregon.
Whitney Grubbs is Executive Director of Foundations for a Better Oregon.
Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan has reopened a critically important conversation about how we make sure Oregon’s investments in public education are working. As Foundations for a Better Oregon Executive Director Whitney Grubbs explains today in The Oregonian, it's "a refreshing show of leadership during an election season where we’ve heard few specifics from candidates about their vision—and plan—for supporting every child in Oregon to learn, grow and thrive."
Yet while the conversation is off to a promising start, it has so far fallen short by focusing only on the Student Success Act, a new initiative funded by a corporate tax created in 2019. "To ensure that Oregon’s education system is serving all students as well as it should," writes Grubbs, "the discussion must also address the lion’s share of public education funding that flows through Oregon’s $9.3 billion State School Fund."
Read the full op-ed in The Oregonian.
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