Apples to Apples (496k ) -
OSBA's Spring 2000 edition of Critical Issues details Oregon's effort to create
a fair, accountable system of measuring the cost of a good education. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Education Leadership
Team - Created by the 1999
Legislature, this group is focusing on setting education priorities... what we want our
children to learn and how we can make schools and communities accountable for reaching
those goals.
ESD Funding Task
Force - 13-member group created
by the 1999 Legislature exploring what school services are best delivered regionally and
how these services should be funded.
Education Funding in Oregon - A look at school funding in Oregon. Contains a comparison of how school
funding has changed over the last decade, estimates of State School Fund distribution on a
district-by-district basis, grant resources and other alternative funding sources.
Database Initiative Project (DBI) -
The Office of School Finance at the Oregon Department of Education provides school-level information on
spending, staffing, processes, student performance, and demographics.
