The Quality Education report
The web site of the Oregon Department of Education includes the 2005 version of the Quality Education Commission report and a three page executive summary of the same document. Both can be found here. If I understand correctly, the report is mandated by the Oregon constitution, and it is supposed to be a planning tool that tells us what activities we need to do and what level of funding we need to provide in order to achieve a high percentage of students (90%) meeting state standards.I highly recommend reading at least the summary and looking at the tables at the end of the full report that list the assumptions for the current baseline and the fully implemented model. The gap between them is significant, and we are losing ground with each passing year.
The idea of coming up with a vision and a plan to implement it as a tool to drive policy implementation and funding sounds like a reasonable approach. It is not rocket science.
Yet the issue of funding public education is extremely divisive and partisan. There are those who still feel that we are being too generous with our spending on public education in spite of the facts, that we can only afford a declining public education system.
I respectfully disagree.
posted by Unknown @ 9:49 AM
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