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Senator Meek urges full funding for 2527 education budget, seeks $13.5 billion
Summary
Senator Meek used floor remarks to call for the Senate to fund K-12 education at $13.5 billion for the 2527 biennium, describing sustained underfunding and calling the current situation unsustainable.
Senator Meek urged colleagues to fully fund Oregon schools in the 2527 biennium at $13,500,000,000, saying educators are operating under unsustainable conditions.
“I repeat, I want us to fund our schools in the 2527 biennium at $13,500,000,000,” Senator Meek told the Senate during remonstrances, describing visits to schools and saying educators “cannot see any light or hope to ever accomplish what they know they are capable of.”
Meek framed the request as a restoration of resources to help educators meet job demands and noted that staff and teachers are committed but constrained by insufficient funding. His remarks were delivered as part of a wider set of floor statements and did not accompany a bill vote in this transcript.
The appeal adds to floor-level pressure ahead of budget negotiations; Meek did not provide a line-item breakdown in these remarks.
