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CFO outlines budget impacts from 2025 legislative session; district to add monthly financial reporting

5448716 · July 23, 2025
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Summary

Portland Public Schools’ new chief financial officer briefed the board on funding outcomes from the just‑closed state legislative session, projected shortfalls in certain grants, a last‑minute reduction to outdoor school funding and plans for more frequent, visual financial reports to the board.

Chief Financial Officer Michelle Morrison and finance staff presented a budget update to the Portland Public Schools Board of Education, summarizing how state and federal decisions from the 2025 legislative session will affect the district’s 2025–26 budget.

Morrison said the district planned using the state school fund figure of $11,360,000,000 and has aligned its planning to that level. She warned that several targeted areas, notably special education and some student-investment funds, did not receive additional state funding after…

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