Oregon K-12 education budget shows costs of legislators’ inaction: Editorial Agenda 2017

The K-12 education budget approved by the Legislature’s Joint Ways and Means education subcommittee Thursday would — in functional states, at least – seem like great news. The committee is recommending allocating at least $8.2 billion in general fund and lottery dollars for the coming biennium to Oregon’s school districts – an 11 percent increase over the current biennium’s allocation.

By The Oregonian Editorial Board

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