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portlandobserver.com
Is Education Taking a Back Seat?
(AP) — Funding for schools,
literacy programs and special ed-
ucation teachers in Oregon — a
state where 60% of third graders
can’t read at grade level — could
be jeopardized by a Republican
walkout that has stalled hundreds
of bills and derailed the Legisla-
ture for nearly six weeks.
The standoff over a bill that
would expand access to abortion
and gender-affirming health care
could scuttle much-needed ed-
ucation funding in a year when
the stars seemed to align for Ore-
gon’s budget.
Tax revenues have exceeded
state economists’ projections, al-
lowing lawmakers to approve a
record K-12 budget of $10.2 bil-
lion. But the education spending
legislation needs a vote from the
Senate, which hasn’t been able
to conduct business since May 3
because of the GOP boycott, and
time is running out, with just two
weeks left until the legislative
session ends.
“Supporting strong schools
and improving student outcomes
should be enough to make anyone
show up for work,” Democratic
state Rep. Courtney Neron, the
House Committee on Education
chair, said at a recent rally against
the walkout. “From early child-
hood through higher education,
our schools and students need us
to respond to serious challenges.”
Attendees chant during a rally calling for an end to the Senate
Republican walkout at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore.,
May 11, 2023.. (AP Photo/Amanda Loman,File)
Oregon’s Senate Republican
office said in an email that “it is
critically important that we make
sure education is fully funded.”
Republican minority leader Sen.
Tim Knopp also said in an email
his caucus will return by June 25
to pass “substantially bipartisan”
bills and budgets.
But Democrats say waiting un-
til the session’s last day to pass
budgets isn’t feasible and school
districts need a sense of potential
funding by early July to begin
planning for the next school year.
“There’s no way that we can
pass all the budget bills on June
25,” Democratic state Sen. Michael
Dembrow, the Senate Committee
on Education chair, said in an email.
“Just doing budget bills in both
chambers will take several days.”
If lawmakers don’t return soon,
Dembrow said he suspects Demo-
cratic Gov. Tina Kotek “will need
to convene a special session at
some point to do the budgets.”
As in other states nationwide,
reading and math scores plum-
meted in Oregon following the
pandemic. School closures hit
young children particularly hard,
depriving them of critical in-per-
son instruction on how to read.
About 60% of third graders in Or-
egon are not proficient in reading
or math, according to the latest
state assessment results.
“This should be an emergency,
a wake-up call,” said Gini Pu-
po-Walker, an executive director
of nonprofit advocacy group The
Education Trust. “It’s unfortu-
nate that those really important
bills that could really reshape the
way reading is taught and could
really transform student experi-
ences with learning are ... now
being held hostage to a totally
separate issue.”