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Educators, parents urge more than co-chairs’ SSF proposal; press to raise special-education cap
Summary
About 10 educators, school board members and parents told the Joint Ways and Means Subcommittee on Education that the co-chairs’ proposed state school fund (SSF) at roughly $11.4 billion would leave districts short, and they urged lifting the 11% special-education cap and fully funding the high-cost disability account.
Salem — About 10 education advocates, school officials and parents testified at a public hearing on Senate Bill 5516, telling the Joint Ways and Means Subcommittee on Education that the co-chairs’ proposed state school fund (SSF) — cited in testimony at roughly $11.4 billion — would not prevent cuts in many districts and urged targeted investments for special education.
Speakers said the current-service-level SSF would leave districts contending with higher student needs and rising costs. "The status quo is not working for so many of our students and families, and they deserve better," Lindsey Ray, a high school math teacher and president of the Beaverton Education Association, told the committee.
Testimony gave district-level examples intended to show gaps in the proposal. Dr. Myelise Tolan, superintendent of Lincoln…
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