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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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The Oregon Green Schools Association invites your school to make real-world steps toward linking educational, economic, and ecological issues.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Stan Bunn announced today at a meeting of the State Board of Education that Oregon's dropout rate for the 2000-01 school year fell to 5.
Oregon School for the Blind - Serves students with visual impairments who have educational needs beyond those which the local school district and regional program can provide.
The services Oregon's schools provide, and the dollars invested in public education, are vital to a healthy Oregon economy.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Oregon is one of only nine states awarded federal grants this year to help schools improve opportunities for special education students, State Schools Supt.
Oregon Green Schools: Helps schools implement comprehensive waste prevention, reuse and recycling programs in their day-to-day operations.
Also referred to as a "Rainy Day Fund," this fund would protect the funding of Oregon's schools as well as other critical state services in the event of a serious economic downturn.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Engineers who inspected Oregon City schools found unreinforced masonry, inadequate bracing to keep walls from collapsing and a lack of ties holding the roofs to the walls.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Oregon high schools have a number of acceleration mechanisms in place to assist motivated high school students to move into college-level programs.
Researchers at Oregon Health & Sciences University compared drug use among student athletes at two high schools in Oregon.
However, in Oregon state where high technology is its number one employer, our schools desire a high level of technology skills for graduating students.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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The Oregon legislature has been controlled by Republicans for the past decade, and in all that time they have totally failed to make any progress in funding Oregon's schools.
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