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The Student Success Act originated as House Bill 3427 and was signed into law by Gov. Kate Brown. It provides a historic $2 billion investment in the state’s preK-12 education system.
"This is a huge and historic win for public education in general and for Portland Public Schools in particular," PPS Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero wrote in a letter to the community. "Our work begins now to lay out a plan for how we will use our share of the additional funds, starting in the 2020-21 school year, in ways that will improve the educational experience for all of our diverse learners."
The infusion of funding will help PPS begin the transformative work to fulfill the longterm vision for the district identified through a comprehensive, community-oriented Visioning process. The PPS Vision (read the full Visioning document) describes our goals for the graduating class of 2030, and the educational experience that will increasingly be the reality for each of our graduates from 2019 onward.
Student Investment Account, 50%: The Student Success Act dedicates half of its funding to a newly-established Student Investment Account that will be distributed as non-competitive grants to all Oregon school districts and eligible charter schools. Districts are allowed to invest that money toward addressing class size, providing a well-rounded education, instructional time, and health and safety. Within those four investment categories, districts have these five priority areas:
Statewide Education Initiatives Account, 30%: Dedicated to expanding school breakfast and lunch programs, operating the youth reengagement system, establishing the Statewide School Safety and Prevention System, developing statewide equity initiatives, providing summer learning programs for certain schools and full funding for Measure 98 (which provides direct funding to school districts to increase high school graduation rates).
Early Learning Account, 20%: Dedicated to early childhood special education and early intervention services, relief nurseries, professional development, Head Start programs, among others. The grants are aimed at promoting capacity of culturally-specific organizations and reducing the equity gap for early childhood program
As part of the Student Success Act process, the district gathered feedback from various stakeholders in October, holding meetings with members of the community, targeted groups, teachers and admininstrators, and conducting an online survey.
Read the report to the Board of Education on the feedback, prepared by Dr. Russell Brown, Chief of Systems Performance.
The Student Success Act survey has closed. Thank you to all who participated.
Read: PPS Vision, "Portland Public School Reimagined (click on image)
Read: The full text of the Student Success Act, House Bill 3427
Watch Gov. Kate Brown's ceremonial signing of the Student Success Act at Jefferson High School:
501 N. Dixon St
Portland, OR 97227
(503) 916-2000
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