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Most Oregon school districts and the hundreds of thousands of students that they serve, once again, will not benefit from any additional summer school funding from the state this year.
The Oregon Department of Education is doling out $30 million to school districts and charters for summer programming this year. The post One quarter of Oregon’s 197 school districts will get summer school money from state appeared first on Oregon Capital Chronicle.
Lawmakers on Wednesday took a bittersweet vote to advance funding for summer school and community-based summer learning programs after failing to provide anything last year.
With no extra funds from the Legislature this summer, education officials welcomed more than $50 million in federal grants.
Thousands of kids across Oregon are guaranteed summer and after-school programs in the coming school year with millions in new federal funding.