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 City Club of Eugene Program Director Eric Dziura introduces the panel on Friday, Feb. 27, to talk about “Effective Public Governance Boards”: (from left) Eugene City Councilor Randy Groves, Eugene... Read More

OSBA focuses on legislation that affects schools, but sometimes unrelated debates in the next hearing room or on the chamber floors ripple through our work. With just a little over... Read More

Protecting public education funding, this session and into the future, is at the top of OSBA’s priorities. Sometimes a bill comes along that tries to pull away school funding for... Read More

The Oregon Capitol is full of dissenting opinions. Such is the nature of democracy. Sometimes, those opinions are expressed through more than just “no” votes. Parliamentary tactics, such as denying... Read More

The short session is beginning to wind down with a little over two weeks left until constitutional sine die, and that means the bills with a real chance are starting... Read More

The Oregon Education Accountability Act requires schools to test K-8 students three times a year in math and language arts and report results at a public meeting starting in the... Read More

Stacy Michaelson, OSBA Government Relations and Communications director, and Morgan Allen, COSA deputy executive director of policy and advocacy, prepare members to talk about the Oregon budget during the 2026... Read More

HR 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, broke Oregon’s budget. With limited time available in the short session, Oregon lawmakers are working quickly to put back together the pieces... Read More

Oregon has robust public meeting laws. From requiring that all public meetings of the governing body are recorded and posted on the governing body’s website to allowing journalists into executive sessions, Oregon... Read More

Small groups work together to build a Lego version of Hogwarts School in a workshop at the Bonds, Ballots and Buildings conference Friday, Feb. 6, in Salem. (Photo by Lionel... Read More

New initiatives frequently come and go in Oregon’s education policy landscape, sometimes at a pace that makes it difficult to track current requirements or to assess outcomes. After 25 years,... Read More

Oregonians voted to have short sessions in even years so that the Legislature could address any budget issues mid-biennium, but that initial framing doesn’t keep legislators from trying to move... Read More

OSBA sent a delegation of 12 executives and school board members to Washinton, D.C., for the Advocacy Institute, including (from left) Luhui Whitebear of Corvallis, OSBA Board President Dawn Watson... Read More

Going into the legislative session Monday, state agencies and school districts were bracing for funding cuts to make up a projected budget shortfall. The Oregon Economic and Revenue Forecast released... Read More

I started my career as a legislative staffer in 2009 in the wake of the Great Recession. The devastating impacts on the state budget led advocates to fill the Capitol... Read More

The short legislative session is a sprint, so it’s only fitting that this year’s session will start with a bang. The 83rd Oregon Legislative Assembly will convene Monday, Feb. 2,... Read More

This short session we will see, yet again, another bill to make class size a mandatory subject of bargaining, as has been the case in seven of the last nine... Read More

Oregon’s education system takes frequent criticism for its graduation rate, but the rate has been steadily improving for more than a decade. Oregon’s four-year graduation rate hit a record high... Read More