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Governor:John Kitzhaber
State Superintendent of Public Instruction:Susan Castillo
Quality Counts state grade:C-
Pre-K-12 enrollment:560,983
Number of school districts:200
Number of public schools:1,296
Number of public school teachers:28,109
Unadjusted education spending per student:$9,268
Percent minority students:33.7%
Percent of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch:49.1%
Percent of students with disabilities:14.1%
Percent of English-language learners:10.3%
NAEP Mathematics 2011 percent proficient
4th grade math:36.6%
8th grade math:32.7%
NAEP Reading 2011 percent proficient
4th grade reading:30.4%
8th grade reading:32.7%

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Kentucky, Virginia, Mississippi, and New Jersey are among the states that could be affected.
November 8, 2007 - Education Week
Voters will decide some notable education- and child-related questions when they go to the polls next month.
October 30, 2007 - Education Week
The city of Portland has launched a program to help families rent or buy homes and—city officials hope—send their children to city schools.
August 10, 2007 - Education Week
Vicki L. Phillips, the superintendent of the Portland, Ore., school system, is stepping down to become the head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s education division.
April 26, 2007 | Updated: December 13, 2011 - Education Week
The state last week sued Vantage Learning after the vendor shut down access to assessments on the Web.
March 20, 2007 - Education Week
Thirteen Western states that are home to more than 93 percent of the nation’s federally owned land have formed a coalition to lobby Washington for an annual $4 billion in lost local and state property-tax revenues on the federal land, nearly $1.9 billion of which would have gone to pay for public education.
December 12, 2006 - Education Week
Even with growing demand and the prospect of new federal and state aid for improving foreign-language instruction, expanding offerings is especially difficult because of a shortage of qualified teachers in what are deemed critical languages, many experts say.
March 28, 2006 - Education Week
Though Oregon’s economy is looking up, a recent boycott of education budget sessions by Republican lawmakers signals that this year could provide another bare-knuckled debate over K-12 funding.
April 19, 2005 - Education Week
Voters in two Ohio cities sent very different messages to their school districts on Election Day.
November 9, 2004 - Education Week
Oregon parents who are not paying their children’s school fees might regret it come the end of the 2004-05 school year, when the schools withhold their children’s report cards or diplomas.
June 9, 2004 - Education Week

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