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❤✆ ❤✝✞✞✟ ✠✡ ☛❤✆ ✟☛✝☛✆ ☞✝✌✍☛✠✞ ✍✎ ✏✝✞✆✑ ✞✍✒✆✞❡ ✟☛✍✞✞
✝✓✆ ✓✆✆✞✍✎✔ ✡✓✠✑ ☛❤✆ ✆✈✆✎☛✟ ✠✡ ☛❤✆ ✞✝✟☛ ✡✆✕ ✖✝❡✟s
✍✎ ✕❤✍✐❤ ✗✆✑✠✐✓✝☛✟ ✝✎✖ ✘✆✌✙✚✞✍✐✝✎✟ ✝✔✓✆✆✖ ☛✠ ✝
✖✆✝✞ ☛❤✝☛ ✞✆✖s ✟✕✍✡☛✞❡s ☛✠ ☛❤✆ ✌✝✟✟✝✔✆ ✠✡ ✝ ☛✝✛ ✠✎
✐✆✓☛✝✍✎ ✜✓✆✔✠✎ ✚✙✟✍✎✆✟✟✆✟ ☛❤✝☛ ✐✠✙✞✖ ☛✠✟✟ ✝✎ ✆✛☛✓✝ ✚✍✞✞✍✠✎
✖✠✞✞✝✓✟ ✠✓ ✟✠ ✆✝✐❤ ❡✆✝✓ ✍✎☛✠ ☛❤✆ ✟☛✝☛✆➆✟ ✢✣✤✷ ✌✙✚✞✍✐ ✟✐❤✠✠✞✟✥
✦❤✆✓✆ ✕✍✞✞ ✚✆ ☛✍✑✆ ✞✝☛✆✓ ☛✠ ✆✛✝✑✍✎✆ ☛❤✆ ✖✆☛✝✍✞✟ ✠✡ ☛❤✆
✖✆✝✞s ✍✎ ✕❤✍✐❤ ✗✆✑✠✐✓✝☛✟ ✝✔✓✆✆✖ ☛✠ ✖✓✠✌ ✝ ✌✓✠✌✠✟✝✞ ☛✠
☛✍✔❤☛✆✎ ☛❤✆ ✟☛✝☛✆➆✟ ✈✝✐✐✍✎✆ ✑✝✎✖✝☛✆✟ ✝✎✖ ✝✞✟✠ ✒✍✞✞✆✖ ✝✎
✠✑✎✍✚✙✟ ✚✍✞✞ ✐✠✎☛✝✍✎✍✎✔ ✝ ✈✝✓✍✆☛❡ ✠✡ ✔✙✎ ✐✠✎☛✓✠✞ ✑✆✝✣
✟✙✓✆✟✥ ✧✎ ✓✆☛✙✓✎s ✘✆✌✙✚✞✍✐✝✎ ✟✆✎✝☛✠✓✟ ✝✔✓✆✆✖ ☛✠ ✓✆☛✙✓✎ ☛✠
☛❤✆ ☞✝✌✍☛✠✞s ✆✎✖✍✎✔ ✝ ✡✠✙✓✣✖✝❡ ✕✝✞✒✠✙☛ ✍✎ ✕❤✍✐❤ ☛❤✆ ✏✆✎✣
✝☛✆ ✐✠✙✞✖✎➆☛ ✖✠ ✝✎❡ ✚✙✟✍✎✆✟✟ ✚✆✐✝✙✟✆ ✍☛ ✖✍✖✎➆☛ ❤✝✈✆ ☛❤✆
✎✆✐✆✟✟✝✓❡ ✷② ✑✆✑✚✆✓✟ ✡✠✓ ✝ ★✙✠✓✙✑✥
✜✎ ☛❤✆✍✓ ✓✆☛✙✓✎ ✉✠✎✖✝❡s ✗✆✑✠✐✓✝☛✟ ✕✝✟☛✆✖ ✎✠ ☛✍✑✆
✍✎ ✌✝✟✟✍✎✔ ✩✠✙✟✆ ✪✍✞✞ ✫✬✷✭ ✠✎ ✝✎ ✤✽✣✤✤ ✌✝✓☛❡✣✞✍✎✆ ✈✠☛✆✥
✮✘✆✌✙✚✞✍✐✝✎ ✏✆✎✥ ✯✝✐✒✍✆ ✰✍✎☛✆✓✟ ✠✡ ✏✝✞✆✑ ✕✝✟ ✆✛✣
✐✙✟✆✖✥❝ ✦❤✆ ✑✆✝✟✙✓✆ ✍✟ ✠✎ ✍☛✟ ✕✝❡ ☛✠ ✱✠✈✥ ✢✝☛✆ ✪✓✠✕✎s
✕❤✠ ✍✟ ✐✆✓☛✝✍✎ ☛✠ ✟✍✔✎ ✍☛✥
✦❤✆ ✚✍✞✞ ✐✝✞✞✟ ✡✠✓ ✝ ✔✓✠✟✟ ✓✆✐✆✍✌☛✟ ☛✝✛ ✠✡ ②✥✲✭✳ ✠✎ ✝
✚✙✟✍✎✆✟✟➆ ✔✓✠✟✟ ✓✆✐✆✍✌☛✟ ✠✈✆✓ ✴✤ ✑✍✞✞✍✠✎✵ ✍☛➆✟ ✆✟☛✍✑✝☛✆✖ ☛✠
✝✡✡✆✐☛ ✬②s②②② ✠✓ ✟✠ ✚✙✟✍✎✆✟✟✆✟ ✍✎ ☛❤✆ ✟☛✝☛✆✥ ✦❤✆ ✶✓✟☛ ✴✤
✑✍✞✞✍✠✎ ✍✎ ✟✝✞✆✟ ✍✟ ✆✛✆✑✌☛ ✡✓✠✑ ☛❤✆ ☛✝✛✥ ✪✙✟✍✎✆✟✟✆✟ ✕✍✞✞
✚✆ ✝✚✞✆ ☛✠ ✟✙✚☛✓✝✐☛ ✫✲ ✌✆✓✐✆✎☛ ✠✡ ✆✍☛❤✆✓ ☛❤✆✍✓ ✞✝✚✠✓ ✠✓ ✐✝✌✣
✍☛✝✞ ✐✠✟☛✟ ✡✓✠✑ ☛❤✆✍✓ ☛✠☛✝✞ ✟✝✞✆✟✥ ❆✞✞ ☛❤✆ ✑✠✎✆❡ ✔✆✎✆✓✝☛✆✖
✍✟ ✍✎☛✆✎✖✆✖ ☛✠ ✔✠ ☛✠ ✢✣✤✷ ✟✐❤✠✠✞✟s ✕❤✍✐❤ ✓✝✍✟✆✟ ✝✎ ✍✎☛✆✓✣
✆✟☛✍✎✔ ★✙✆✟☛✍✠✎ ✝✚✠✙☛ ❤✠✕ ✑✙✐❤ ✑✠✎✆❡ ✕✍✞✞ ✚✆ ✝✈✝✍✞✝✚✞✆
✡✠✓ ☛❤✆ ✟☛✝☛✆➆✟ ❤✍✔❤✆✓ ✆✖✙✐✝☛✍✠✎ ✟❡✟☛✆✑s ✕❤✍✐❤ ✝✞✟✠ ❤✝✟
✚✆✆✎ ✙✎✖✆✓✡✙✎✖✆✖ ✚❡ ✜✓✆✔✠✎ ✡✠✓ ✔✆✎✆✓✝☛✍✠✎✟ ✎✠✕✵ ☛❤✆
✝✎✟✕✆✓ ☛✠ ☛❤✝☛ ★✙✆✟☛✍✠✎ ✎✠✕ ✓✆✟☛✟ ✍✎ ☛❤✆ ❤✝✎✖✟ ✠✡ ☛❤✆
▲✆✔✍✟✞✝☛✙✓✆➆✟ ✚✙✖✔✆☛ ✕✓✍☛✆✓✟s ✕❤✠ ✕✍✞✞ ✖✠✙✚☛✞✆✟✟ ✚✆ ✌✝❡✣
✍✎✔ ✐✞✠✟✆ ✝☛☛✆✎☛✍✠✎ ☛✠ ☛❤✆ ✟☛✝☛✆➆✟ ✎✆✛☛ ✓✆✈✆✎✙✆ ✡✠✓✆✐✝✟☛s
✕❤✍✐❤ ✕✝✟ ✖✙✆ ✰✆✖✎✆✟✖✝❡✥
❨✠✙➆✞✞ ✓✆✐✝✞✞ ☛❤✝☛ ☛❤✆✓✆ ✕✝✟ ☛✝✞✒ ✡✓✠✑ ✪✓✠✕✎ ✆✝✓✞✍✆✓ ✝✚✠✙☛
✌✠✟✟✍✚✞❡ ✆✝✓✑✝✓✒✍✎✔ ✟✠✑✆ ✠✡ ☛❤✝☛ ✕✆✝✞☛❤ ✡✓✠✑ ☛❤✆ ✚✙✟✍✎✆✟✟
☛✝✛ ☛✠ ❤✍✔❤✆✓ ✆✖✙✐✝☛✍✠✎s ✚✙☛ ☛❤✝☛ ✕✝✟ ✕✍✖✆✞❡ ✌✆✓✐✆✍✈✆✖ ✝✟ ✝✎
✝☛☛✆✑✌☛ ✚❡ ☛❤✆ ✔✠✈✆✓✎✠✓ ☛✠ ✞✍✎✆ ✙✌ ✌✠✞✍☛✍✐✝✞ ✟✙✌✌✠✓☛ ✡✠✓ ☛❤✆ ☛✝✛
✡✓✠✑ ❤✍✔❤✆✓ ✆✖✙✐✝☛✍✠✎ ✠✡✶✐✍✝✞✟✥ ❆✎✖ ✍☛ ✚✆✐✝✑✆ ✐✞✆✝✓ ✆✝✓✞❡ ✠✎
☛❤✝☛ ✞✆✔✍✟✞✝☛✍✈✆ ✞✆✝✖✆✓✟ ✍✎☛✆✎✖✆✖ ✡✓✠✑ ☛❤✆ ✟☛✝✓☛ ✠✡ ☛❤✍✟ ✆✡✡✠✓☛ ☛✠
✆✎✟✙✓✆ ☛❤✝☛ ✝✞✞ ☛❤✆ ✑✠✎✆❡ ✕✆✎☛ ☛✠ ✢✣✤✷ ✟✐❤✠✠✞✟✥
✪✙☛ ☛❤✆✓✆ ✝✞✟✠ ✕✝✟ ☛✝✞✒ ✡✓✠✑ ✪✓✠✕✎s ✚✝✐✒ ✍✎ ❤✆✓ ✍✎✝✙✣
✔✙✓✝✞ ✟✌✆✆✐❤ ✍✎ ✯✝✎✙✝✓❡s ☛❤✝☛ ☛❤✆ ✟☛✝☛✆ ✕✠✙✞✖ ❤✠✞✖ ✟✐❤✠✠✞
✖✍✟☛✓✍✐☛✟ ✝✐✐✠✙✎☛✝✚✞✆ ✚❡ ✆✎✟✙✓✍✎✔ ☛❤✝☛ ➇✎✆✕ ✖✠✞✞✝✓✟ ✝✓✆
✙✟✆✖ ☛✠ ✍✑✌✓✠✈✆ ✔✓✝✖✙✝☛✍✠✎ ✓✝☛✆✟s ✓✆✖✙✐✆ ✐✞✝✟✟ ✟✍✸✆✟ ✝✎✖
✌✓✠✈✍✖✆ ✝ ✡✙✞✞ ✟✐❤✠✠✞ ❡✆✝✓✥➈
✦✠ ✍☛✟ ✐✓✆✖✍☛s ☛❤✆ ✚✍✞✞ ✖✠✆✟ ✍✎✐✞✙✖✆ ✑✆✝✟✙✓✆✟ ✖✆✟✍✔✎✆✖ ☛✠
✆✎✟✙✓✆ ☛❤✝☛ ✟✐❤✠✠✞ ✖✍✟☛✓✍✐☛✟ ✝✓✆ ✝✐✐✠✙✎☛✝✚✞✆ ✡✠✓ ☛❤✆ ✍✎✡✙✟✍✠✎
✠✡ ✓✆✈✆✎✙✆ ☛❤✆❡➆✓✆ ✆✛✌✆✐☛✆✖ ☛✠ ✔✆☛ ✚✆✔✍✎✎✍✎✔ ✍✎ ☛❤✆ ✷②✷②✣✷✤
✟✐❤✠✠✞ ❡✆✝✓✥✦❤✝☛➆✟ ✍✑✌✠✓☛✝✎☛ ✡✠✓ ✌✞✆✎☛❡ ✠✡ ✓✆✝✟✠✎✟s ✝✎✖ ❤✆✓✆➆✟
✝ ✚✍✔ ✠✎✆✹ ✺✈✆✎ ☛❤✠✙✔❤ ☛❤✍✟ ✍✟ ✝ ☛✝✛ ✠✎ ✚✙✟✍✎✆✟✟✆✟s ❡✠✙➆✞✞ ✚✆
✌✝❡✍✎✔ ✟✠✑✆ ✠✡ ☛❤✆ ✡✓✆✍✔❤☛ ✝✟ ☛❤✠✟✆ ✚✙✟✍✎✆✟✟✆✟ ✌✝✟✟ ✝✞✠✎✔
☛❤✆ ✍✎✐✓✆✝✟✆✖ ☛✝✛✥ ✦✠ ✐✠✑✌✆✎✟✝☛✆ ✡✠✓ ☛❤✝☛s ☛❤✆ ✌✞✝✎ ✍✎✐✞✙✖✆✟
✝✎ ②✥✷✲ ✌✆✓✐✆✎☛✝✔✆ ✌✠✍✎☛ ✌✆✓✟✠✎✝✞ ✍✎✐✠✑✆ ☛✝✛ ✐✙☛ ✡✠✓ ✝✞✞ ✚✙☛
☛❤✆ ❤✍✔❤✆✟☛ ✍✎✐✠✑✆ ✆✝✓✎✆✓✟✥
✩✝✞✡ ✠✡ ☛❤✆ ✑✠✎✆❡ ✓✝✍✟✆✖ ✕✍✞✞ ✚✆ ✖✍✟☛✓✍✚✙☛✆✖ ✝✟ ✔✓✝✎☛✟ ☛✠
✞✠✐✝✞ ✖✍✟☛✓✍✐☛✟s ✝✎✖ ✷②✳ ☛✠ ✌✓✠✔✓✝✑✟ ✡✠✓ ☛✠✖✖✞✆✓✟ ✝✎✖ ✌✓✆✣
✟✐❤✠✠✞✆✓✟✥ ✦❤✆ ✓✆✑✝✍✎✖✆✓ ✕✍✞✞ ✚✆ ✖✍✈✍✖✆✖ ✚✆☛✕✆✆✎ ✡✙✎✖✍✎✔
✡✠✓ ✐✝✓✆✆✓ ✝✎✖ ☛✆✐❤✎✍✐✝✞ ✆✖✙✐✝☛✍✠✎ ✝✎✖ ✍✎✍☛✍✝☛✍✈✆✟ ✑✆✝✎☛ ☛✠
✌✓✆✈✆✎☛ ✖✓✠✌✠✙☛✟✥
✗✍✟☛✓✍✐☛✟ ✕✍✞✞ ❤✝✈✆ ☛✠ ✟✙✚✑✍☛ ✌✞✝✎✟ ✝✚✠✙☛ ❤✠✕ ☛❤✆❡ ✕✍✞✞ ✙✟✆
☛❤✠✟✆ ✡✙✎✖✟ ☛✠ ✍✑✌✓✠✈✆ ✔✓✝✖✙✝☛✍✠✎ ✓✝☛✆✟s ✖✆✐✓✆✝✟✆ ✐❤✓✠✎✍✐
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Celebrating Oregon’s charter schools
20 Years in the Making
You might not be
aware of them, but there
are dozens around Or-
egon — they focus on lan-
guages, the environment,
college courses, many ex-
ist on the internet. They
are the state’s 132 charter
schools and we should
celebrate them during
National Charter Schools
Week (May 12-18).
This is also the 20th
Anniversary of Oregon’s
landmark charter school
law enacted by the legis-
lature in May 1999. We
both helped draft this
law, both created char-
ter schools in the years
since, and now hope for a
brighter future for these
education innovators.
The charter law creates
an, “avenue for parents,
educators and commu-
nity members to take re-
sponsible risks to create
new, innovative, more
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ing all children within the
public school system.”
According to the Oregon
Department of Educa-
tion, the avenue of charter
schools has experienced
a 62-percent net increase
in the past decade. Char-
ters currently serve over
34,000 students or 6% of
Oregon’s total K-12 school
population.
After the charter law
passed, we were in-
trigued about the idea
of establishing Oregon’s
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school to deliver class-
es to students in their
homes using the internet.
In 2005 Oregon Connec-
tions Academy became
reality serving hundreds
of students statewide. We
spent years, joining forc-
es with other advocates
for charters and mak-
ing compromises at the
state capitol so students
could have virtual char-
ter schools as a choice for
their education.
Over the past 20 years
charters did breathe fresh
life into what was, and at
times still is, the state’s
troubled public school
system. Charter schools
have now become part
of the fabric of Oregon’s
education environment.
Even though the policy
and funding battles were
frustrating, we are proud
to be a part of Oregon’s
charter school story.
The rewards come
when we see all the won-
derful publicly funded
schools that students,
parents, and teachers can
now choose from that
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children growing up in
the interconnected digital
world will become par-
ents, expecting the ben-
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wouldn’t be there today,
but for those battles. The
real success stories are
the numerous students
whose lives are trans-
formed by charters in
positive ways, especially
the ones who’ve become
lifelong learners.
Online public schools
have been the most ro-
bust part of the charter
movement in Oregon.
New technology we can’t
even imagine is on the
horizon creating more
opportunities to meet
the needs of students and
our changing society in
the future.
Our state could do much
more toward innovation,
charters and choice. In
fact, online public schools
their kids. If that happens
there will be additional
competition,
renewed
creativity, and 20 years
from now charter schools
— physical and virtual —
will be more numerous,
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❨♦✙ ✚✛✜ ✢✛✈❡ ✙✣ ✤♦ ✥✦✧ ♦❢❢ ✤★❡ ✢✩✜✪✫❡✬✚♦✣②
✣♣✩✚❡ ✭✩✤★ ★♦✮❡ ✯❡✫✩✈❡♣②✳
❈✛✫✫ ✺✰✶✲✱✴✵✲✵✶✴✶ ✤♦ ✢✙t✢✚♣✩t❡✳
❙✤♦✣✣❡✯ ✛✚✚♦✙✜✤ t✛✫✛✜✚❡✢ ✫❡✢✢ ✤★✛✜ ✷✸ ✭✩✫✫
t❡ ♣❡❢✙✜✯❡✯ ✙✣♦✜ ♣❡❜✙❡✢✤✳
My Voice
➃➄➅➆➇➇➈➉ ➃➆➇➈➅➊
➋➌➍➍ ➎➏➐➑➍ ➒➓ ➔→➌ ➣➐↔➏↕ ➑➏➌➒↕➌➙➔ ➐➍ ➔→➌ ➛➏➌➜➐➙
➝➐➙➙➌➞➔➒➐➙➓ ➟➞↔↕➌➠➡➢
➤➡ ➥➐➒➞➌ ➞➐➦➧➠➙➓ ➏➌➨➌➞➔ ➔→➌ ➩➒➌➫➓ ➐➍ ➔→➌ ↔➧➔→➐➏
➐➙➦➡➢ ➤➡ ➥➐➒➞➌ ➞➐➦➧➠➙➓ ➓→➐➧➦↕ ➣➌ ➭➯➯➲➳➯➯ ➫➐➏↕➓➢
➟➧➔→➐➏➓ ↔➦➓➐ ➓→➐➧➦↕ ➒➙➞➦➧↕➌ ➔→➌➒➏ ➍➧➦➦ ➙↔➠➌➵ ↔➜➌➵
➐➞➞➧➑↔➔➒➐➙ ↔➙↕ ➏➌➦➌➩↔➙➔ ➐➏➜↔➙➒➸↔➔➒➐➙↔➦ ➠➌➠➣➌➏➓→➒➑➓➢
➺➌ ➌↕➒➔ ➓➧➣➠➒➓➓➒➐➙➓ ➍➐➏ ➣➏➌➩➒➔➡➵ ➜➏↔➠➠↔➏➵ ➔↔➓➔➌ ↔➙↕
➦➌➜↔➦ ➏➌↔➓➐➙➓➢➺➌ ➏➌➻➌➞➔ ➔→➐➓➌ ➑➧➣➦➒➓→➌↕ ➌➦➓➌➫→➌➏➌➢
➼➌➙↕ ➞➐➦➧➠➙➓ ➔➐ ➽↔ ➾➏↔➙↕➌ ➛➣➓➌➏➩➌➏➵ ➚➪➯➶ ➭➔→ ➼➔➢➵
➽↔ ➾➏↔➙↕➌➵ ➛➏➌➢➵ ➹➳➘➭➯➵ ➍↔➴ ➔→➌➠ ➔➐ ➭➪➚➲➹➶➷➲➳➘➯➪ ➐➏
➌➠↔➒➦ ➔→➌➠ ➔➐ ➙➌➫➓➬➦↔➜➏↔➙↕➌➐➣➓➌➏➩➌➏➢➞➐➠➢
THE OBSERVER
❚★❡ ❤t✢❡♣✈❡♣ ♣❡✤✛✩✜✢ ♦✭✜❡♣✢★✩✣ ✛✜✯ ✚♦✣②♣✩✪★✤
✣♣♦✤❡✚✤✩♦✜ ♦❢ ✛✫✫ ✢✤✛❢❢✬✣♣❡✣✛♣❡✯ ✜❡✭✢ ✚♦✣②✽ ✛✯✈❡♣✤✩✢✩✜✪
✚♦✣②✽ ✣★♦✤♦✢ ✛✜✯ ✜❡✭✢ ♦♣ ✛✯ ✩✫✫✙✢✤♣✛✤✩♦✜✢✳❚★❡② ✮✛②
✜♦✤ t❡ ♣❡✣♣♦✯✙✚❡✯ ✭✩✤★♦✙✤ ❡❛✣✫✩✚✩✤ ✣♣✩♦♣ ✛✣✣♣♦✈✛✫✳
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