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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Brown offers 7-step ed policy Local sheriffs join support to in first grade, and reduce the size from 24 in the sec- ond grade and 25 in the third grade to 23. • Mandate a minimum 180-day school year. • Accept recommenda- tions from a policy advi- sory committee on policies to create “safe and effec- tive schools,” including enhancing access to coun- selors and mental health professionals. • Boost access to career-technical education. • Enhance support for educators and high quality instruction. Oregon Rep. Knute Buehler, the GOP nominee for governor, released his education platform in late June. “After 30 years in elected office, and the last three as governor, Kate Brown has had many opportunities to show that she is capable of fixing our broken schools,” said Mon- ica Wroblewski, communi- cations director for Bue- hler’s campaign. “Instead, as governor, she has pre- sided over a public school system that fails to grad- uate roughly one out of every four kids – one of the worst graduation rates in the country.” Buehler’s plan would “actually solve Oregon’s classroom funding cri- By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Gov. Kate Brown released her seven-step education policy agenda Monday, Aug. 27, com- ponents of which will be included in her proposed 2019-21 state budget, her spokeswoman said. “The governor strongly believes that in order to effect change for Oregon’s students, a multi-pronged approach is vital,” said Kate Kondayen, a press secretary in Brown’s office. The press secretary did not answer a question from the Pamplin/EO Media Group about how much the education policy agenda would cost. The governor’s pro- posed statewide budget is due in late November. At 77 percent, Oregon has one of the worst on-time gradu- ation rates in the nation and one of the shortest school years, according to federal statistics. Her plan would: • Increase access to pre- school for low-income chil- dren. She plans to propose funding to send 10,000 more children to preschool in the next two-year budget and 40,000 by 2025. • Decrease the median class size from 22 to 20 in kindergarten, maintain 23 sis and move our schools from the bottom five to the top five in five years,” Wroblewski said. “He will lead where Kate Brown has failed.” His plan also calls for a minimum 180-day school year and more access to career-technical education. Buehler, a Bend ortho- pedic surgeon and state representative for Oregon House District 54, has said he plans to achieve his goal by boosting the state bud- get for education by at least 15 percent. The increase in funding would be paid for in part with cost sav- ings from reforms to the state public pension pro- gram, the Public Employ- ees Retirement System, or PERS, Buehler said. Meanwhile, a 14-mem- ber legislative committee has been touring schools around the state and seek- ing input since April on policies the Legislature could pursue next year to improve graduation outcomes. The tour is scheduled to continue through the first half of October. Legislation stemming from the tour could include reform of educational fund- ing or accountability mea- sures that tie funding with certain measures of perfor- mance, among others. 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Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group 60s 70s 80s By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian The sheriffs of Umatilla and Morrow counties joined 14 others in Oregon urging voters to repeal Oregon’s sanctuary law. Umatilla County Sheriff Terry Rowan and Morrow County Sheriff Ken Matlack added their names to Clat- sop County Sheriff Tomas Bergin’s letter Monday ask- ing voters to mark “yes” on Ballot Measure 105 in November to end Oregon Revised Statute 181A.820, which forbids state and local enforcement agencies from using their resources to find or apprehend any- one whose only violation is being in the county in viola- tion of federal immigration laws. Rowan said he signed the letter because this issue is about focusing on the people in the county illegally who are criminals. “If a person is illegally here, I’m not even worried about that,” he said. “But what I am worried about are those who are here ille- gally and who commit local crimes. ... That is the pop- ulation that we’re trying to get at.” Umatilla County has not had an uptick in crime from illegal immigrants, Rowan said, but there are people here illegally who commit crimes. Letting local law enforcement communicate and work with federal agen- cies “just makes sense,” he said, and Oregonians have the right to vote on repealing the sanctuary law. “This is about the rule of law,” he said, and law enforcement should be able to communicate with fellow agencies, no matter their level of government, from local to federal. Fighting crime, he said, is apolitical. 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM — The Ore- gon Legislature is fight- ing attempts by the state’s labor commissioner to sub- poena documents as he pur- sues senior lawmakers for allegedly permitting a sexu- ally hostile environment in the Capitol. The Legislature is com- mitted to transparency, but the documents contain con- fidential information about people who came forward in harassment complaints and asked to remain anonymous, a lawyer whose firm is repre- senting the Legislature said in a letter. A copy of the letter, sent on Friday to members and staff of the Legislature by Edwin Harnden of the Bar- ran Liebman law firm of Portland, was obtained by The Associated Press. “The Legislature will pro- tect the privacy of those indi- viduals who disclosed per- sonal information relating to harassment issues in the Capitol,” Harnden wrote. On Aug. 1, Labor Com- missioner Brad Avakian filed a complaint with his own department accusing Sen- ate President Peter Court- ney and House Speaker Tina Kotek, both fellow Demo- crats, of allowing a sexually hostile environment and of being slow to protect women from Republican Sen. Jeff Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation Manager: 541-966-0828 Umatilla County Sheriff Terry Rowan Morrow County Sheriff Kenneth Matlack Erin McKee is co-direc- tor of the Immigrant Rights Project at the Oregon Justice Resource Center. She issued a statement Monday assert- ing Oregon’s 30-year-old sanctuary law has benefited public safety and prevented racial profiling. McKee called Bergin’s letter “tired, fear-mongering rhetoric that misleads the public on how the law works.” Bergin perpetuates “the myth of the criminal immi- grant,” McKee wrote. “Studies have shown, repeatedly, that immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native-born cit- izens. There is no factual basis for the assertion that a civil immigration violation leads to a life of crime.” Nothing in the sanctu- ary statute prevents local law enforcement from pur- suing immigrants who com- mit crimes, according to McKee, but passing the ballot measure will lead to U.S. Immigration and Cus- toms Enforcement deporting noncitizens who called the police for help. She stated the letter is “nothing short of open hostility towards communities of color, immi- grants, and non-citizens,” and Oregonians “should reject such fear based rhet- oric and myths, and support policies grounded in facts, dignity, and compassion.” Rowan said he spoke with a number of commu- nity groups about the need to repeal the sanctuary law, including some from the Hispanic populace. Rowan said those groups agree law enforcement needs to deal with people who don’t obey the law. He stressed repeal- ing the law was not about Latinos but freeing local law enforcement to work with federal partners. That’s no different, he said, than the sheriff’s office sharing information with city police departments. “If we can’t use every tool available to us,” he said, “we’re just swimming upstream all the time.” The East Oregonian tried to reach Sheriff Matlack, but he didn’t return a call before deadline Monday. Oregon has 36 coun- ties, so 20 sheriffs did not sign the letter. The 16 who did are Bergin (Clatsop), Craig Zanni (Coos), John Ward (Curry), Shane Nel- son (Deschutes), John Han- lin (Douglas), Glenn Palmer (Grant), Gary Bettencourt (Gilliam), Dave Ward (Har- ney), Chris Kaber (Klam- ath), Mike Taylor (Lake), Brian Wolfe (Malheur), Matlack (Morrow), Brad Lohrey (Sherman), Rowan (Umatilla), Boyd Rasmus- sen (Union) and Chris Hum- phrey (Wheeler). ——— Contact Phil Wright at pwright@eastoregonian. com or 541-966-0833. Legislature objects to subpoenas in sexual harassment case through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. 81/53 89/52 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date HERMISTON Enterprise 88/54 Corvallis 73° 54° 85° 55° 103° (1916) 40° (1911) PRECIPITATION Moses Lake 80/50 Aberdeen 75/52 81/57 Tacoma Yesterday Normals Records Spokane Wenatchee 81/55 end Oregon’s sanctuary law Kruse. Kruse resigned ear- lier this year as the #MeToo movement against sex- ual misconduct swept poli- tics, entertainment and other industries. Kotek and Courtney have said they acted quickly when complaints emerged about Kruse, who an independent investigation determined had harassed women in the Cap- itol with prolonged hugging, groping and other unwel- come physical contact. “The ‘MeToo’ move- ment has woken everybody up that this is not OK behav- ior,” Kotek told reporters on Aug. 2 in response to Avaki- an’s complaint. She said if it leads to an investigation that helps create a better atmo- sphere in the Capitol and bet- ter outcomes for victims, that she is open to it. The complaint from Ava- kian, whose term ends at the end of the year, came as a surprise, and after Kotek and Courtney had already asked the Oregon Law Commis- sion to review policies on harassment and recommend ways to improve them by year’s end. Since the #MeToo move- ment caught fire, about half of all state legislatures in America have changed their sexual harassment policies, most often by boosting their own training, according to a 50-state analysis by The Associated Press published Sunday. The rest have done nothing this year. Harnden on Friday sent a letter to Avakian’s Bureau of Labor and Industries, formally objecting to the subpoenas, Oregon Pub- lic Broadcasting reported. Harnden’s letter to Capi- tol workers and lawmakers explained the reasons behind the objections. “The information seeks highly confidential person- ally identifiable information about individuals who came forward in harassment com- plaints and asked to remain anonymous, and because the subpoenas are overbroad,” Harnden wrote. He said the objections are “a standard part of the administrative process under BOLI’s rules.” The Legislature will respond to Avakian’s com- plaint on Friday, Harnden said. It was filed on behalf of two female interns for Kruse who had complained of unwanted touching and comments, and on behalf of two employees. None was identified. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. 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