News Stories

Good education news is relative. Statewide assessment data published Thursday, Sept. 24, showed nearly across-the-board proficiency improvements in all subjects and grade levels and with most demographic groups. But the... Read More

Southern Oregon Education Service District hosted OSBA’s first 2026 Fall Regional Meeting at its new district offices in Phoenix. OSBA holds Fall Regional Meetings all over the state every year... Read More

The OSBA Board held its annual in-person September meeting near Klamath Falls over the weekend with two important pieces of business: To elect 2027 officers and to consider an OSBA... Read More

Happy mothers take important first day of school pictures at Rural Dell Elementary in the Molalla River School District on Monday, Aug. 31. Students and teachers will be tackling new... Read More

The Oregon Economic and Revenue Report showed the state’s economy chugging along, resilient but not radiant. State Chief Economist Carl Riccadonna told legislators on Wednesday, Aug. 26, that conflicting signals... Read More

School districts’ personnel costs reflect dozens of interlocking business decisions that ultimately are felt in the classroom. (File photo by Jake Arnold, OSBA) Schools are a people business. “We need... Read More

OSBA’s mission at its heart is to support school board function for the benefit of all students. The OSBA Board’s purpose is to make sure the association is delivering on... Read More

Oregon’s public pension investments had a good biennium, but many school districts will still be facing huge increases. Milliman, Oregon’s actuary, released its PERS investment valuations last week in preparation... Read More

Woodburn School Board’s first student representatives in years, Edwin Estevez Ramos (standing) and Abigail Trapala Vera (center), work with board members during an exercise at the OSBA Summer School Session... Read More

OSBA Policy Services Director Spencer Lewis directs school district leaders in a complaint procedure exercise during OSBA’s first Summer School Session in Redmond on Friday, July 10. The conference brought... Read More

Dave Harvey, Property and Casualty Coverage for Education Administration director, travels Oregon telling school leaders how they rely on each other to hold insurance costs down. (Photo by Jake Arnold,... Read More

Estacada High School senior Cailyn Thielke gasped when she learned her district’s graduation rate was 28% when she started school in 2014. That’s not the school she knows. Last year,... Read More

Milliman, Oregon’s actuary, created a greatly simplified illustration of the effects of different rates on paying down the Public Employees Retirement System’s unfunded actuarial liability. The PERS board chose the... Read More

The Oregon State Board of Education adopted rules Thursday for the state’s new “performance growth targets” while expressing skepticism about the support to help schools achieve those targets. The Oregon... Read More

Teacher Amanda Carlton and sophomore Brianna Huggins lead an editorial discussion as the Pacific High School newspaper and yearbook class prepares to put out the April print edition of The... Read More

The June Oregon Economic and Revenue Forecast is a good reminder that state revenue is not the economy. The quarterly report, which came out May 20, shows an economy struggling... Read More

The quarterly Oregon Economic and Revenue Forecast released Wednesday morning told a story of falling wage strength and increasing prices for the majority of Oregonians. Ballot results from Tuesday suggested... Read More

Gov. Tina Kotek announced an executive order aimed at preserving schools’ instructional time. School leaders say the order didn’t factor in logistical and financial issues. (Photo by Jake Arnold, OSBA)... Read More