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Co-Chairs Release 2019-21 Budget Proposal
March 18, 2019 - On Thursday, Mar. 7, the Co-Chairs of the Joint Ways and Means Committee released their 2019-21 budget proposal, based on the March State Revenue Forecast, which calls for an $8,871.5 billion allocation to K-12 education. This is $590.5 million short of the $9.462 billion state-level allocation HSD would need to maintain current services over the biennium. At this funding level, HSD would experience a shortfall of $20.86 million over the next two years.
The Co-Chairs’ proposal also calls for a continuation of the partial funding of Measure 98 - the career-technical education (CTE), graduation attainment, and dropout prevention measure passed by voters in 2016 - districts received this biennium ($170 million). Full funding of M98 would be $303 million.
The shortfall in HSD would come on the heels of $64 million in net reductions to our current service level budget over the past eleven years. During this time, the District has increased class size, reduced staff in other areas, cut school days, reduced discretionary spending, depleted special reserve funds, and lowered our ending fund balance to 4 percent.
Hillsboro School District continues to push for stable and adequate funding of K-12 education, which the Co-Chairs’ allocation does not provide. We need a significant investment at the state level to fund education equitably across Oregon. The 197 school districts in the state should not have to individually rely on their local communities’ ability and desire to tax themselves over and above the amount that is already collected in support of public education to fill the gaps that are left by the State School Fund.
Please review the documents on our Budget Matters webpage for more information: 2019-21 Legislative Priorities, Legislative Advocacy Presentation, Advocacy Leave-Behind Sheet, and Budget Reference Materials. Then, using either the Legislative Contact List or the interactive Find My Legislator tool to select the appropriate people, take a few moments to reach out to your elected officials and urge them to support reinvestment in K-12 education.
The 2019-21 budget will not be final until it is adopted by the Legislature later this spring. We will keep you updated throughout the process.
Presidentes publican su propuesta del presupuesto 2019-21
El jueves, 7 de marzo, los presidentes de Joint Ways y de Means Committee publicaron su propuesta del presupuesto 2019-21, basada en el pronóstico de ingresos del estado de marzo, que pide una asignación de $8,871.5 mil millones para la educación K-12. Esto es $590.5 millones menos que los $9,462 mil millones de la asignación a nivel estatal que HSD necesitaría para mantener los servicios actuales durante el bienio. A este nivel de financiamiento, HSD experimentaría un déficit de $20.86 millones durante los próximos dos años. Pulse aquí para más información.