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It’s no secret that America’s education system leaves much to be desired. All corners of the political spectrum agree this is a problem, but no one seems to have a solution. Here in Oregon, the majority party did away with graduation standards, removed requirements for opting out of State testing, and took away local control. Did these fantastical policies at least disguise Oregon’s lackluster education statistics? Nope. Oregon ranks: 46TH IN NAEP READING RANK GRADE 4 2024 Source: National Assessment of Educational Progress 48TH IN NAEP MATH RANK GRADE 4 2024 Source: National Assessment of Educational Progress 46TH IN CSI EDUCATION COMPETITIVENESS RANK 2024 Fall enrollment saw a -1% decrease in 2025 Source: Common Sense Institute Free Enterprise Report 2026 44TH IN EDUCATION Source: KIDS COUNT Data Book 2026 Calculation based on a state’s young children (ages 3 and 4) not in school (2020-24), Fourth graders not proficient in reading (2024), Eighth graders not proficient in math (2024), and High school students not graduating on time (2023-24) 45TH IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS NOT GRADUATING ON TIME Source: KIDS COUNT Data Book 2026 18% of Oregon Highschoolers are not graduating on time Tied with Nevada, North Dakota. Idaho, Oklahoma, Vermont, and Wyoming The District of Columbia is the 50th (could or could not make Oregon tied for 46th)

A multi-part series on the imminent fall of Portland, due to crumbling real estate, Byzantine laws, usurious penalties and a government hiding the darkest secret Portland holds. Series continues in the comments. Posted on the Corrupted Governor Tina Kotek FB page by Mark Rogers. 1/ "THIS IS THE MAP THAT WILL DESTROY PORTLAND. -By SEP Asset Stabilization LLC EDIT: BELOW IS THE LIVE LINK https://t.co/kZ2yLPKcm0... This is our first part expose concerning the antitrust of Portland City and Multnomah county. This represents 8 billion of POTENTIAL AND IMMINENT LOSS to the city and county. Every blue dot is a brick building that can't be insured(without paying 3 to 10 time premium). Can't be financed or refinanced. Can't be sold at fair market value(10 cents on the dollar seems to be the going rate). And in many cases — can't even be auctioned. There are 1,369 of them. They are scattered across every neighborhood you care about — Parkrose, Old Town, Sandy Boulevard, Division, Alberta, Mississippi, St. Johns, Central Eastside, Montavilla, Lents. The restaurants you eat at. The apartments your neighbors live in. The small businesses that anchor your block. All unreinforced masonry. All under a mandatory seismic retrofit order from the City of Portland. Almost none of them have a funded path to compliance. Retrofit costs run $800,000 to $8,000,000 per building. The buildings are often worth less than the cost of fixing them. No conventional lender will finance a loan where construction cost exceeds collateral value. So the owners are trapped. They can't fix the building. They can't sell the building. They can't insure the building. And when they fall behind on property taxes — because of course they do — Multnomah County forecloses. And here's where it gets ugly. THE COUNTY ISN'T AUCTIONING THESE BUILDINGS. Oregon law requires it. ORS Chapter 275 lays out the foreclosure auction process. The county is supposed to auction tax-foreclosed properties and recover what it can. But what happens when you auction a building that nobody can insure, nobody can finance, and nobody knows how to retrofit? Nobody bids. And if nobody bids, the county is stuck holding a building it can't maintain, can't sell, and can't put back on the tax rolls. The assessed value collapses. The tax revenue disappears. The building rots. The county spent more administering the foreclosure than it will ever recover. So they stopped auctioning them. The county's own budget documents show foreclosure auction revenue collapsing year over year. Their Tax Title program page confirms the last public sale was May 2024. The next one? "Anticipated Spring 2026." We're in Spring 2026 right now. No properties have been posted. No auction has been announced. And the last time they did sell, it was bare land — strips and small parcels sold to adjacent property owners. Not buildings. Not the 1,369 buildings on this map. They are hiding the problem. Instead of auctioning buildings that nobody will buy, the county quietly absorbs the loss. Your tax dollars subsidize the gap between what these buildings owe and what the county can't recover. The county just settled a $3.5 million class action lawsuit for keeping surplus proceeds from the foreclosure sales it DID conduct — money that legally belonged to the original property owners. They were foreclosing on people, selling their buildings, and pocketing the difference."

This Thursday, Apr. 2, Portland city council will hold its first public hearing on two new taxes to fund its always-out-of-money transportation bureau. In a weird twist, water/sewer ratepayers will be paying nearly all of the new taxes. Signup to testify here: https://t.co/Sxib5N5y4O