Oregonian: Metro area's millions float other schools
An interesting article in the Sunday Oregonian titled Metro area's millions float other schools on the wide range on per student funding for K-12 education, with some of the lowest numbers being in the suburban communities of Washington county.Sherwood is the lowest with only $5,800 per student, Beaverton is close by with $6,300 (not including the local option funds) and Hillsboro is around $6,500. All of them well below the state average of $7,200 per student. I can see that there are higher costs for things like transportation in other parts of Oregon, but since K-12 education expenses are mainly for labor and benefit, our higher cost of living here in Washington county should be taken into account. Our superintendents makes that point in a couple of quotes in the article:
"'We do need some kind of recognition in the funding formula of the higher costs of living,' says Hillsboro Superintendent Jeremy Lyon.
But with statewide funding being squeezed, this isn't the time for that change, he says.
'Looking at ways to divvy up that pie at other school districts' expense is not any solution I would be interested in,' Lyon says."
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