Ed Budget Reform Measure Clears Session, Heads for Design Work
Efforts to make Oregon's education budget process transparent, integrated, and student-centered emerged from the 2007 Legislature in HB 3141. This law directs the Governor to integrate the PreK-20 budget for the next biennium, and it provides for a design team of legislators and educators to accomplish that work.

The legislation grew out of Roundtable work with a group of concerned legislators over the summer and fall of 2006 as well as a subsequent state government white paper, Rethinking the Budget Framework, supported by grant funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Click here for a summary version of the paper.

State Board Adopts Higher Diploma Standards
In January the Oregon State Board of Education adopted the most significant upgrade in high school graduation standards and credits in a decade and a half.

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Roundtable Wins Renewed Lumina Support
The Lumina Foundation for Education awarded the Roundtable an 18-month extension grant for $85,000, beginning September 15, 2006.

Roundtable White Papers Underscore Education Change Initiatives Recommended in Oregon Business Plan
In summer 2006 the Roundtable published in a single package six white papers that it commissioned in 2005 to describe how Oregon should and can help more Oregonians than ever before to attain a higher level of education. The recommendations of these papers figure prominently in the current education policy initiative of the Oregon Business Plan.

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