Oak Park senator and legislator colleagues at an Oak Park middle school, October of 2013
Returning to the October 2013 gathering of eagles, at Oak Park’s Percy Julian Middle School . . .
A CLAIM mother asked about the funding of mandates, what the state requires and the district pays for.
“It depends on how you define mandate,” said Sen. Lightford. It had become “very popular” to refer to compulsory kindergarten as unfunded, for instance, she said..
(The Oregon School Boards Association and Confederation of Oregon School Administrators did so as recently as two and a half years earlier, favoring kindergarten but regretting it as unaffordable.)
She said she was “lukewarm” about the problem and preferred a “happy-medium” solution.
Wanting not to put the questioner “on the spot,” the Oak Park senator, our hero for this series, asked for examples of “significant” added costs of a mandate.
The questioner turned to ask the superintendent, who wasn’t there! It was an important gathering, he had said earlier…
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