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It’s official: The Legislature is aiming for an $11.4 billion State School Fund. The Co-Chair Budget Framework, released Wednesday, March 19, is the first indication of how the Legislature intends... Read More

With bills needing to be scheduled by Friday, March 21, for a work session, committee agendas have been quite full. The House Education Committee held four work sessions and four... Read More

School budgeting is one part science and one part educated guesses seasoned with unforeseen circumstances and a pinch of hopeful thinking baked under a constant heat of state and federal... Read More

The Oregon Department of Education is updating the “Supporting Gender Expansive Students: Guidance for Schools” it put out two years ago. The section it published Tuesday, March 18, on athletics... Read More

The Phoenix-Talent School District offers a quick rundown of school budget basics on its website. A school district budget is a plan based on a series of estimates, and it’s... Read More

Districts interested in board development training can contact OSBA Board Development Director Kristen Miles at [email protected]. After 17 years as InterMountain Education Service District superintendent – and 37 years in... Read More

The Oregon Department of Education began convening a legislatively mandated discussion on accountability in February 2024, more than a year ago. We saw the first public results this week of... Read More

The OSBA School Board Members of Color Caucus and the COSA Equity Board Administrators of Color Network spent the morning of Tuesday, March 11, preparing to meet with Oregon legislators... Read More

OSBA Executive Director Emielle Nischik (left) and COSA Legislative Director Parasa Chanramy testified Monday, March 10, before the House Education Committee that they support Gov. Tina Kotek’s school accountability bills... Read More

OSBA Board Development Director Kristen Miles presented Sunday, March 9, at the Jackson County Library in Medford on “What It Means To Be a School Board Member.” The audience had... Read More

Bills to reduce class sizes have been a regular feature in the Oregon Legislature for at least 15 years. Everyone agrees Oregon wants smaller classes if we can achieve them.... Read More

School districts are major employers, which means sometimes we must face labor issues. Senate Bill 916 has been one of the most contentious bills of this session. The bill would... Read More

The federal government provided 14% of Oregon K-12 funding this biennium, according to the Oregon Blue Book. Anything that threatens that funding makes school leaders nervous.   Recent communications from President... Read More

Recent communications from the U.S. Department of Education and the Trump administration have created confusion across the country. The laws have not changed, though. We know school leaders fear a... Read More

A complicated and technical analysis of Oregon education funding came to a pretty simple conclusion. “It costs more to achieve more,” University of Miami Professor Bruce Baker told legislators several... Read More

The 2019 Oregon Legislature established a “Fund for Student Success” and adopted the corporate activity tax to pay for it. The aim was to raise about $1 billion a year... Read More

The outlines of Oregon’s 2025-27 state budget were drawn Wednesday. It’s a bigger picture than economists saw in November, good news for education advocates looking for greater investments. The available... Read More

OSBA advocacy work extends beyond the bills that move through the education committees. Sometimes the most contentious bills with the heaviest district impacts don’t have the words school or education... Read More