Votes are coming on a significant investment in schools, and legislators need to know where your community stands.

The Legislature took a big step Monday toward making a significant and stable investment in Oregon schools.

The Student Success Committee has put forth a detailed revenue and spending plan, and Gov. Kate Brown is tackling the PERS problem.

Dozens of students, parents and educators praised legislators Thursday night for their work to increase school investments and, often in emotional testimony, pleaded with them to do even more.

Legislators expect to choose a proposal this week to bring in $1 billion more a year in revenue dedicated to education.

Tuesday, April 9, marks the deadline to “work,” meaning vote on, bills in the chamber of origin.

Release of the Joint Committee on Student Success’ legislative outline means the Oregonians for Student Success campaign is kicking into high gear.

The Joint Committee on Student Success leaders unveiled a detailed draft Thursday of their plans for roughly $2 billion a biennium in education investment.

Legislative leaders unveiled their ideas Thursday for the long-awaited Student Success Act, an overarching Oregon education investment plan.

The Joint Committee on Student Success seems poised to tackle big problems, ranging from student wellness to curriculum choices.

The legislative leaders in the Joint Ways and Means Committee delivered their budget framework for the 2019-21 biennium on Thursday, March 7.

The Joint Committee on Student Success has begun putting some meat on the bones of its education ideas.

Oregon is dealing with a student mental and emotional health crisis, and legislators want to give schools more tools to help young people.

The long-awaited Joint Committee on Student Success report repeatedly calls attention to the need for stable and adequate funding with some sort of accountability.

The Joint Interim Committee on Student Success learned the potential bill for its education wish list Thursday night – over $3.5 billion.

Months of public hearings have led the Joint Interim Committee on Student Success to develop education policy recommendations that range from increased early childhood support and learning to dropout prevention and educator support.

Sen. Tim Knopp, Joint Interim Committee on Student Success vice-chair, said reaching the funding level he believes schools deserve will require changes.

The Joint Interim Committee on Student Success added safety and health roundtables to its usual program of facility tours, student listening sessions, education and community leader roundtables, and public hearings.

Three work groups (Students Ready and Able to Learn, College and Career Ready, and High Quality Classrooms) will create a handful of education policy goals by Aug. 1.

Joint Interim Committee on Student Success visited the North Clackamas School District, southeast of Portland, on Wednesday.

The bipartisan committee is traveling Oregon to gather ideas for a legislative plan to adequately fund K-12 public schools while improving Oregon education.

Eastern Oregon business leaders tell state legislators that schools should better prepare students for work through vocational programs and social-emotional development.

School board members, students, parents, business leaders, community members, school administrators and other education advocates told legislators about successful programs that needed more support and areas where schools must do more.

The Joint Interim Committee on Student Success announced Wednesday 10 meeting dates and locations for 2018.

The committee is working to create a plan to improve Oregon K-12 public education and to provide adequate funding.

If Democrats achieve a supermajority, their 2019 agenda will likely push progressive issues, especially concerning the Public Employees Retirement System and revenue reform.