Here is my comment on OregonLive.com to the story "Oregon K-12 budget is back on the Senate's docket".
"$6.55 billion dollars is $$340 million dollars less than the $6.895 minimum level of funding for Oregon K-12 education for 2013/15 recommended by the Oregon Quality Education Model Commission in order to phase in full funding over a ten year period. According to the QEM Commission, $8,754,971,481 is the amount needed for full funding for the 2013-15 biennium. (Quality Education Model Final Report 2012) The Oregon Constitution requires the legislature to provide an explanation as to why it did not provide the necessary funding. I am sure that the legislature will ignore this constitutional provision just as they have in previous years. So, when the legislators do pass a K-12 education budget there should be no self-congratulations since they will not have met their obligations as voted by the people of Oregon by a nearly 2-1 margin in 2000 (Measure 1)."
"$6.55 billion dollars is $$340 million dollars less than the $6.895 minimum level of funding for Oregon K-12 education for 2013/15 recommended by the Oregon Quality Education Model Commission in order to phase in full funding over a ten year period. According to the QEM Commission, $8,754,971,481 is the amount needed for full funding for the 2013-15 biennium. (Quality Education Model Final Report 2012) The Oregon Constitution requires the legislature to provide an explanation as to why it did not provide the necessary funding. I am sure that the legislature will ignore this constitutional provision just as they have in previous years. So, when the legislators do pass a K-12 education budget there should be no self-congratulations since they will not have met their obligations as voted by the people of Oregon by a nearly 2-1 margin in 2000 (Measure 1)."
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