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Revenue reform

Information and news relating to state revenue reform

  • First 2019 Lobby Day delivers personal messages of education funding needs
    Wednesday, February 13, 2019
    School board members, administrators and parents personally took the school funding message to legislators Tuesday during the first of OSBA’s Oregonians for Student Success Lobby Days.
  • Revenue Reform and Schools
    Thursday, January 24, 2019
    How should the Legislature fix the public education funding system?
  • Oregonians for Student Success website channels call for education investment
    Wednesday, January 16, 2019
    The advocacy campaign supports outreach to legislators to improve the K-12 school system
  • Town hall offers information, tools to advocate for education funding
    Friday, January 11, 2019
    Education advocates voiced concerns over statewide mandates, local program needs and more at OSBA’s first school funding town hall.
  • Town hall series will bring campaign for education funding to Pendleton
    Thursday, January 3, 2019
    The the first in a series of town halls running through March is part of “Oregonians for Student Success,” an OSBA campaign for adequate and stable state K-12 school funding.
  • OSBA town halls will support advocacy for education funding
    Wednesday, December 19, 2018
    Starting Jan. 10 in Pendleton, OSBA will host a series of evening town halls as part of “Oregonians for Student Success,” a campaign for adequate and stable Oregon K-12 school funding.
  • School board service gives legislators unique perspective on funding needs
    Friday, December 14, 2018
    Four state legislators in 2019 will be pulling double duty as school board members.
  • Business plan envisions new business tax combined with state cost cuts to benefit education
    Tuesday, December 4, 2018
    Panelists and presenters at the 16th Oregon Leadership Summit on Monday spoke passionately about the need for increased education spending for children, for Oregon’s future and for the good of Oregon businesses.
  • Governor’s budget protects status quo while aspiring for additional $1.3 billion for education
    Thursday, November 29, 2018
    Gov. Kate Brown offered two budget approaches Wednesday: an education status-quo budget based on current revenue and an investment budget that adds nearly $1.3 billion for early learning and K-12 education with as-yet-unnamed revenue.
  • Business leaders emphasize cutting benefit costs to reach education funding goals
    Monday, November 26, 2018
    Oregon business leaders say they support revenue reform for education provided that any deal contains cost containment measures.
  • OSBA’s ‘Promise of Oregon’ video shows need for revenue reform to fund education
    Tuesday, November 13, 2018
    OSBA has released a “A Time to Listen,” a potent documentary on Oregon’s chronic education funding problem and the legislative drive for a solution.
  • OSBA convention adds urgency to call for revenue reform
    Monday, November 12, 2018
    OSBA’s 72nd Annual Convention offered a clear message: Oregon needs revenue reform for education, the time to act is now and our children deserve it. All of them.
  • Members’ message to OSBA: Revenue reform remains the top priority
    Wednesday, October 31, 2018
    Polling during OSBA’s Fall Regional meetings this year showed strong support for revenue reform to increase Oregon education funding.
  • Quality Education Model sets bar, but state needs revenue reform to reach it
    Monday, October 29, 2018
    The nonpartisan Quality Education Commission maintains that it’s the Legislature’s responsibility to provide more money for schools.
  • Senator says he will introduce bill to fund Quality Education Model
    Friday, September 28, 2018
    Sen. Tim Knopp, Joint Interim Committee on Student Success vice-chair, said reaching the funding level he believes schools deserve will require changes.
  • New Fall Regional format reveals members’ support for revenue reform
    Friday, September 21, 2018
    OSBA should focus on revenue reform and press the Legislature to fund to the Quality Education Model, school board members and administrators told OSBA staff at the Fall Regional meeting in Hillsboro.
  • Early registration discount for OSBA’s 72nd Annual Convention will end Oct. 5
    Wednesday, September 19, 2018
    The Nov. 8-11 convention will focus on revenue reform advocacy in 2019 and honoring Oregon’s education promise to students.
  • OSBA’s Fall Regional meetings begin Sept. 13, featuring slightly different format
    Wednesday, September 12, 2018
    The meetings will focus heavily on OSBA’s revenue reform and cost containment effort, which includes polling, grass-roots advocacy and a legislative campaign.
  • OSBA’s Fall Regional meetings, beginning Sept. 13, will focus on revenue reform efforts
    Tuesday, August 21, 2018
    OSBA’s Fall Regional meetings, held in 21 locations around the state, will emphasize advocacy efforts for revenue reform, cost containment and accountability to fix Oregon’s education funding problem.
  • OSBA, business and government groups seek information to guide PERS reforms
    Friday, August 10, 2018
    OSBA has joined business and government employer groups in asking the Public Employees Retirement System to analyze various reform proposals designed to lower costs.
  • OSBA convention will emphasize need for revenue reform to fulfill Oregon’s education promise
    Tuesday, August 7, 2018
    This is your opportunity to rally around the issue that our members have told us is their main concern: revenue reform to ensure stable, adequate and equitable funding for our schools.
  • Oregon education funding lags other states, Quality Education Model reports
    Thursday, August 2, 2018
    Education funding in Oregon is about 9 percent below the national average.
  • Oregon’s revenue system fails school funding, Quality Education Commission report says
    Wednesday, August 1, 2018
    The biennial Quality Education Model is the gold standard of Oregon public education goals, but the Legislature has never met its funding targets.
  • OSBA Board approves $3 million for revenue-reform effort, data analysis
    Monday, June 25, 2018
    Campaign is aimed at creating sustainable funding solution during 2019 session
  • Revenue reform dominates discussions at OSBA Fall Regional Meetings
    Monday, November 6, 2017
    OSBA staff traveled close to 5,000 miles over six weeks to listen to members’ concerns in person.
  • Revenue reform effort is dead, Democrats say
    Friday, June 23, 2017
    Revenue reform has been linked to providing adequate funding for K-12 education.
  • Push for revenue reform finds new avenues
    Tuesday, June 20, 2017
    New bill amendments surfaced Wednesday that could translate to more than $550 million in new state business taxes in 2017-19.
  • Tax reform discussion Thursday mostly concerned with business impacts
    Thursday, June 15, 2017
    House Bill 2830 would replace Oregon’s corporate income tax with a gross receipts tax and send that money to a new Education Strategic Investment Fund.
  • Employees would have to contribute toward PERS under cost-containment bill
    Monday, June 5, 2017
    Public employees would be required to contribute toward their retirement plans under one of two bills that moved Monday.
  • Legislature gets look at proposed business tax reform details
    Tuesday, May 23, 2017
    The Joint Tax Reform Committee reviews a commercial activities tax plan
  • Joint Tax Reform Committee works on plan to raise revenue
    Friday, May 5, 2017
    The committee, one of five groups meeting to work on addressing the $1.6 billion state budget shortfall, is tasked with reforming Oregon’s corporate tax structure.
  • ‘Structural imbalances’ have state budget near tipping point
    Friday, April 28, 2017
    When you don’t have enough money to pay the bills, you need to either make more money, cut your costs or find some mixture of the two.
  • Oregonians want better education and for big business to help pay for it, poll finds
    Monday, March 13, 2017
    A ground-breaking poll released by OSBA indicates that Oregonians see K-12 public education as the state’s top funding priority, and that they support raising business taxes to avoid cutting school budgets.
  • New poll shows voter support for K-12 education and revenue reform
    Monday, March 13, 2017
    A ground-breaking poll released by OSBA indicates that Oregonians see K-12 public education as the state’s top funding priority, and that they support raising business taxes to avoid cutting school budgets.

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