Kotek Open to Overhauling Oregon’s School Poverty Funding Formula

Kotek open to overhauling Oregon’s school poverty funding formula

Gov. Tina Kotek said Thursday that she believes the state should reevaluate how it accounts for student poverty levels in the complicated, decades-old funding formula used to determine how much state money each of Oregon’s 197 school districts receives every year.

Oregon school leaders call for funding formula changes after federal poverty data leads to cuts

The head of Salem-Keizer Public Schools spent nearly a year painstakingly holding meetings and restructuring staffing plans to close a $23 million budget deficit for the next school year.