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K. RAMBO Meeting by videoconference on Friday, the Oregon State University Board of Trustees approved construction of a new $70 million arts and education complex to be completed by summer term of 2023. The Legislature approved $35 million in state bonds for the project in August. The rest of the money is coming from donations, including a $25 million gift from an anonymous benefactor. After hearing a series of passionate critiques during the public comment section of the virtual meeting, the board settled into business as usual, discussing new construction on campus, a 10-year bu...

Holiday scratch-offs win bupkis for Illinois students Anyone betting those lottery tickets they gifted will help education would lose. In Illinois, gifting holiday scratch-off tickets should come with the feel-good side benefit of helping public school students, except Illinois’ pension crisis guarantees lottery money never makes it to classrooms.  When lawmakers were debating the Illinois Lottery in 1973, some of the public opposition was overcome by lawmakers promising “the state share [of lottery revenues] would be used entirely for public schools,” according to The Associate...

A $121 million question remains to be resolved before Oregon State University can assume responsibility for the management of the Elliott State Forest. The State Land Board has signed off on OSU’s plan to manage the 80,000-plus acre forest in Coos and Douglas counties, but there was no mention of financing issues during the board's remote three-hour session on Dec. 8. When the state first began discussing the future of the Elliott, the Legislature appropriated $100 million to help offset the lost revenue that timber sales used to provide to the state’s Common School Fund. That still...

Ditching remote: Dozens of Amherst-area families make other school choices First grader Sebastian Sienkewicz of Pelham plays with twirlies with Learn at Morse Hill science teacher Rosa Whelpley during a period of free play for kindergartners and first and second graders at the outdoor school in Shutesbury on Dec. 3. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING Second-grader Jasper Hoxie-Golding, left, and first-grader Sebastian Sienkewicz listen to Learn at Morse Hill Director Corinne Shaw read from Chapter 5 of “The Hobbit” during the after-lunch community read at the outdoor school in Shutesbury on Thursd...

Oregon OKs OSU’s plan for Elliott Forest By Jim Day, Albany Democrat-Herald, Ore. Published: December 13, 2020, 2:00pm Share: Elliott State Forest CORVALLIS, Ore. — Oregon State University’s bid to manage the Elliott State Forest took a huge step forward Tuesday. The State Land Board, meeting remotely, approved the transfer of the massive forest property in southwest Oregon to OSU to manage as a research forest. The decision came at the end of a three-hour meeting that included a presentation from OSU College of Forestry Dean Tom DeLuca, comments from the project�...