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February 3, 2011

Oregon Governor Proposes in State K-12 Tax Dollars

Paris Achen:

Fears of having to make millions of dollars in budget cuts at Oregon school districts were fueled Tuesday when Gov. John Kitzhaber proposed a K-12 education allocation of $5.56 billion for the next biennium.

Local school district officials said the amount would be insufficient to support existing services at schools, and they continued to hold out hope that the Legislature would augment that number.

One-time federal stimulus funds in this biennium helped to postpone some of the cuts districts now face, and education lobbyists are urging the Legislature to backfill what's lost in stimulus funds, so that total K-12 funding would reach $5.8 billion for the biennium.

"We were expecting this," said Ashland schools Superintendent Juli Di Chiro. "We are hoping the Legislature will see differently. At the minimum, we need level funding."

The Medford School District, with 12,300 students, expects cuts of $13.5 million to $14 million from its $90 million budget, under the governor's budget proposal.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 3, 2011 1:44 AM
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