2.1 School Improvement 

OSBA supports state-level school improvement efforts provided they are implemented in ways that grant local school officials maximum flexibility to incorporate community needs and priorities.

2.2 Special Education 

OSBA supports categorical funding, in addition to and not in lieu of general state operating aid, that recognizes the increased cost of providing educational programs to students with disabilities. 

OSBA supports enhanced levels of state aid for the extraordinary costs associated with programs required for students with the most severe low-incidence, high-cost disabilities, including those served in out-of-district or out-of-state placements.

2.3 Education Service Districts 

OSBA supports the role of education service districts (ESDs) to assist school districts and the state Department of Education in achieving Oregon's educational goals by providing equitable, high-quality, cost-effective, locally-responsive educational services on a regional basis.

OSBA opposes the expansion of the three-ESD pilot governance model enacted by the 2005 Legislature and supports allowing the three pilot districts to choose whether or not to continue under the pilot governance structure.

2.4 Curriculum 

OSBA opposes legislatively imposed curriculum, specific course or subject of instruction mandates. 

OSBA fully supports the continued use of English Language Learner programs as a viable way to integrate non-native English speakers into the standard district curriculum. 

OSBA supports full-day kindergarten when accompanied by a separate and distinct state appropriation and implemented at the local district's option.

2.5 Public Charter Schools

OSBA opposes changes to the current charter school law that would channel public funds to private and religious schools, allow entities other than school district boards to authorize charter schools within their boundaries, mandate direct access to the State School Fund by charter schools, increase funding to charter schools, or decrease school district authority for chartering or oversight.

OSBA opposes diluting the 50% in-district student residency requirement for virtual or local charter schools.