Opt-out culture is undermining Oregon public education accountability systems.

While Oregon young people are beating the odds everyday toward their diploma, the K-12 education system is governed and designed so ineffectively and incoherently that their success seems by chance, not by design. As State leaders prepare for the next legislative session early next year, many are asking what new State policies should be created to improve the system. While there’s a role for policy in the actions recommended in this article, we’re not going to policy our way of Oregon’s education challenges alone. Policy is too slow of a lever to match the level of urgency young people deserve.

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