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• Student Success Committee report focuses on need for stable and adequate funding
  Thursday, January 24, 2019
  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.
• Legislative assignments put school board members in thick of education funding
  Thursday, December 20, 2018
  With revenue reform and education funding shaping up as 2019’s driving legislative issues, the committee assignments released Thursday reveal who will be steering policy.
• Estimate puts potential $3.5 billion price tag on Student Success Committee’s goals
  Friday, December 14, 2018
  The Joint Interim Committee on Student Success learned the potential bill for its education wish list Thursday night – over $3.5 billion.
• Student Success Committee work groups release policy recommendations
  Wednesday, November 7, 2018
  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.
• 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.
• Student Success Committee tour adds school safety and student health roundtables
  Friday, September 14, 2018
  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.
• 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.
• New work groups begin focusing Joint Interim Committee on Student Success’ efforts
  Thursday, July 12, 2018
  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.
• Woodburn offers improvement example for Joint Interim Committee on Student Success
  Friday, May 25, 2018
  Woodburn School District instituted a K-12 dual-language program and International Baccalaureate program and broke the large high school into four smaller schools.
• Education spending discussion dominates Student Success Committee roundtable
  Thursday, May 10, 2018
  Joint Interim Committee on Student Success visited the North Clackamas School District, southeast of Portland, on Wednesday.
• Kotek will join Student Success Committee for North Clackamas School District tour
  Monday, May 7, 2018
  Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek will join the Joint Interim Committee on Student Success’ visit to the North Clackamas School District on Wednesday.
• Student Success Committee peering at education from every angle
  Thursday, April 26, 2018
  The bipartisan committee is traveling Oregon to gather ideas for a legislative plan to adequately fund K-12 public schools while improving Oregon education.
• Student Success Committee listens to business leaders, school board members and others
  Wednesday, April 25, 2018
  Eastern Oregon business leaders tell state legislators that schools should better prepare students for work through vocational programs and social-emotional development.
• Calls for funding programs dominate Student Success Committee hearings
  Friday, March 23, 2018
  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.
• Student Success Committee announces statewide tour schedule
  Wednesday, March 21, 2018
  The Joint Interim Committee on Student Success announced Wednesday 10 meeting dates and locations for 2018.
• Student Success Committee will hold public meeting Thursday in Eugene
  Friday, March 16, 2018
  The committee is working to create a plan to improve Oregon K-12 public education and to provide adequate funding.
• Oregon needs to fix its school system, education advocates tell legislators
  Friday, February 9, 2018
  The Joint Committee on Student Success heard Friday from business representatives, educators, statewide agencies and students about what schools are doing right and what they need to do.
• Joint committee will explore Oregon education needs for 2019 session
  Thursday, January 4, 2018
  The Oregon Legislature announced that the bipartisan Joint Committee on Student Success will tackle how to pay for a high-quality K-12 education system.