Connecting the dots between education funding, spending & student outcomes

This is the third report in a three-report Connect the Dots series to demystify and democratize access to information about how Oregon’s statewide public K-12 education system is designed to get the outcomes it gets.

The domino effect connecting education goals & accountability for improvement.

Statewide education goals can be a critical driver of coherence, clarity, and connections between State and local policymaker intentions and students’ everyday success.

Without clear and consistent goals that are connected to systems of education funding, distribution, implementation, and accountability infrastructure, funding competes with incoherence.

Connecting the dots between education governance & outcomes

Who is responsible and for what in public education are fundamental education governance questions that partially address the root causes to Oregon’s education system challenges.

Governance decisions set off a chain of dominos across a vast system impacting student opportunities and achievement over generations.