For 10 yrs, OR has invested significantly (not surpassingly) in schools.
In the past 8 yrs, math/reading have tanked+enrollment has fallen off a cliff (pandemic+birth rate).
Is the answer more $? Maybe. But some say OR needs to fix HOW that $ is spent.
https://t.co/qbXuSOyB2F
At Lincoln HS tonight for a packed forum on school funding. Why is this the hottest ticket in town? Because it features State Sen. Kate Lieber+ Rep. Tawna Sanchez, who chair the Joint Ways+Means Committee -- actually state budget decision makers, facing the firing squad.
@horvick@jordan_pape Helpful info! For the layperson, "support staff" in this context refers to reading/academic interventionists, instructional coaches, school counselors etc. Not classroom teachers, but still playing critical roles in the ecosystem of a school.
Say what you will a/b the @PPSConnect school board, but they pulled off a leadership election tonight with a remarkable amount of comity. Maybe the Portland City Council should take some notes? cc: @shanedkavanaugh.
I will bring the🍿to the Nov. 19 hearing at the OR legislature's joint committee on Public Education Appropriations on this bombshell new report:
https://t.co/cFqSXWtkSh
ICE agents hold teens at gunpoint at Dutch Bros in Hillsboro
This is one of several examples of how ICE is operating in Oregon.
@Oregonian https://t.co/GnhHQNorOX
When you've read all the protest news from Portland today, take a minute to dive into the proposed major changes for attendance zones at PPS high schools in N/NE Portland:
https://t.co/HwZiXPXWeZ
Trump administration doling out access to select right-wing media personalities equates to propaganda, experts say
Important story by @lrmongeau @Oregonian https://t.co/E5YeYKUwyF
Now is a great time to subscribe to @Oregonian and support local journalism, work like this story and the other excellent coverage produced by my colleagues in these uncertain times. https://t.co/SEB3yqgyLe
My colleague @hborrud is out today with a banger of a story on the Oregon families who are stuck waiting for years while @ORDeptEd drags out investigations into their claims of discrimination against their school districts: (🎁'd link)
https://t.co/SeXSXXYoYh
🔎The state does not track how long it takes to resolve the cases in its system, though it has the right to grant itself multiple extensions. @hborrud had to build a database of all outstanding cases and how long they’ve been awaiting resolution.
@JohnTapogna@ChadAldeman@adams_d65845@ORDeptEd And PS: If your kids are missing big chunks of school, then that's part of the problem. This isn't all on the school system: parents need to get their kids to school in the AM, ready to learn.
All eyes are on the ICE building in PDX. What is happening there is important.
But the annual release of test score data from ODE matters too, for the future of Oregon's children, the health of its public school system+the state's economy. 🧵
🎁'd link:
https://t.co/SRY5RbSvTa