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This section offers a vast array of education-related information and tools including background and analysis articles, handouts and sample documents, guidelines, checklists, toolkits and more.
Ask OSBA
OSBA staff answers your most frequently asked questions about board governance and meetings.
Board operations
Board members need to know public meetings law, teamwork, policy-making and much more to function effectively and efficiently.
Bonds and local option elections
These resources will help you understand the election process and give you tools to be successful in your campaign.
Budget and finance
Guidance in understanding school budgets and the state's funding of public education.
Education news
Stay up to date on Oregon education issues.
Labor and negotiations
Information to assist you in developing or improving systems to achieve better relationships with employees.
Legal
General information to help boards and staff keep up-to-date on the legal issues in education.
Legislative and advocacy
Tools to be better grassroots advocates for education.
PERS
This information center contains the latest about PERS and a high-level summary of the PERS challenge.
Policy
Establishing and maintaining effective, clearly-written policy is a board's foremost responsibility.
Public meetings and records
The most important role of the board chair is conducting the meeting.
Student achievement and graduation
Best practices and research to improve student achievement and make data-based decisions.