Gov. John Kitzhaber plans a powerful Oregon education board, connecting school funding to performance

Kimberly Melton:

Gov. John Kitzhaber aims to fix Oregon's broken school funding system by consolidating power and money into a single board for all levels of education -- a board that he would chair.

What youths need, he says, is a system that allows them to improve at their own pace, with funding that is targeted at schools and programs that are getting results.

On Friday, the governor ordered the creation of an investment team to design the framework for an Oregon Education Investment Board that would oversee education for children from birth through college. He will name the 12 members of the team next week.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 13, 2011 1:10 AM
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