Oregon Live – Betsy Hammond
“Oregon ranks No. 41 in the nation when it comes to educating its children and youth, largely because it draws so lightly on its tax base to fund schools and its students’ math and reading skills have barely improved over the past decade, the national news outlet Education Week reported Wednesday. Oregon also ranks low because so few preschoolers and kindergartners attend full-day programs and because the reading and math skills of low-income students have fallen so dramatically behind those of their better-off peers, it said.”(more)