Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, top lawmakers push funding for summer school and programs If we do it, it’ll be one of the most remarkable moments in Oregon’s history dealing with the education of its children, Senate President Peter Courtney said. Author: Morgan Romero Updated: 7:13 PM PDT March 15, 2021
SALEM, Ore. With Oregon students getting back into classrooms this spring, lawmakers are looking to the summer to help them learn and have fun again.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney and House Speaker Rep. Tina Kotek announced the Summer Learning and Child Care Package last week, a $250 million proposed plan to help students recover from the academic and social-emotional challenges they ve faced during the pandemic.
Legislators, secretary of state go to court over redistricting
They seek more time due to census delays; Republicans renew push for independent panel.
Oregon lawmakers and the secretary of state outlined their next steps on the redrawing of legislative and congressional district lines, even though census-block data critical to the process will not be available for six more months.
Meanwhile, some Republican lawmakers and others have called for an independent commission to do the redrawing, although it would take a statewide vote to change the state constitutional requirements for legislative redistricting.
The pandemic-related delay in data by the U.S. Census Bureau has prompted legislative leaders, the redistricting committees and Secretary of State Shemia Fagan to present official requests to the Oregon Supreme Court, which is the final arbiter of both plans.
Originally published on February 26, 2021 4:37 pm
Joyce Dorsey, whose son Che Taylor was shot by Seattle Police nearly two years ago, speaks in Olympia before the delivery of Initiative 940 petition signatures to the Washington secretary of state Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017. CREDIT: TOM BANSE
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Oregon Senate Republicans boycotted the state Legislature’s floor session on Thursday, shortly after Gov. Kate Brown announced she was extending her COVID-19 related emergency order.
It was a move reminiscent of Republican walkouts of the previous legislative session, which denied the majority Democrats enough people to be able to vote on bills.
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Oregon Senate hit by another GOP lawmaker boycott, now over COVID-19
(Update: Adding video, more comments from Knopp, says it was one-day deal )
Knopp says Democrats afraid of people that don’t agree with their agenda
SALEM, Ore. (AP) Republican lawmakers boycotted an Oregon Senate session Thursday morning, using a tactic they had employed in the past two years to assert their will by stopping work in the Democratic-led Legislature.
This time, it was over the state’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Senate Republican Leader Fred Girod said the Legislature “has abdicated too much responsibility” to Democratic Gov. Kate Brown. He demanded legislation aimed at school reopenings, vaccine distribution, economic recovery and government accountability.