August 2, 2019

First employee lays groundwork for Student Success Act

Author: Claire Withycombe/Oregon Capital Bureau

Education department and other agencies begin cranking up a $1 billion funding plan to transform schools and aid students.
Oregon's ambitious and costly plan to transform its public schools begins with one person.
On Thursday, Aug. 1, the first employee — one of dozens — charged with putting the Student Success Act into action joins the state's education department.
Lawmakers voted in May to raise new tax dollars to boost the amount of money flowing toward Oregon's public schools by $1 billion e