![]() Oregon’s new governor, Tina Kotek, announced a different graduation rate goal when she was running for office: to improve Oregon’s graduation rate to “90% for all student groups by 2027.” That’s 10% lower, two years later.Īs Oregon’s political leadership has changed, so have the state’s priorities around education. John Kitzhaber, the governor who first announced that goal at his inaugural speech in January 2011, resigned from office in February 2015. It’s hard to know if Oregon leaders still feel as committed to that goal as they did in 2011. Third graders at Earl Boyles Elementary School play recorders at a winter concert, Dec. ![]() 100% of adult Oregonians with at least a high school diploma or equivalent by 2025. In 2011, the state legislature enacted a law to make “40-40-20″ the mission for “all education beyond high school” for the state: that at least 40% of Oregonians would have a Bachelor’s degree or higher, that another 40% would have an associates’ or post-secondary credential of some kind, and that the remaining 20% would have a high school diploma or equivalent.Ĥ0+40+20 equals 100.
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