Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB2009: Relating to education; declaring an emergency.
Status: Failed, June 27, 2025
Digest: Creates framework for school districts to measure the outcomes of students and to improve the outcomes. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). [ Digest: Directs ODE to study ways to improve the outcomes of the public schools of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). ] [ Requires the Department of Education to study methods for increasing the accountability of the public education system of this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026. ] [ Sunsets January 2, 2027. ] Requires specified entities that receive moneys from the State School Fund to measure the outcomes of the students of the entity. Directs entities to develop performance growth targets and prescribes requirements that will be imposed by the Department of Education if targets are not met. Directs school districts and public charter schools to administer and review interim assessments in mathematics and language arts to measure student academic growth. Authorizes the department to direct school districts and public charter schools to adopt specified instructional materials or to participate in training or improvement activities if the district or school does not meet the goals established in the early literacy success plan. Removes the requirement that publishers submit a fee for each instructional material proposed by the publisher to the State Board of Education. Directs the department to study the reporting requirements imposed on school districts and to identify reporting requirements that can be decreased in frequency, eliminated or consolidated. Directs the department to contract with an entity to review the administrative rule requirements for a school district or an education service district to be considered standard. Directs the department to submit to the Legislative Assembly a report summarizing administrative a
What the bill says
From the introduced text, April 15, 2025:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL 2009 By COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION April In line 2 of the printed bill, after "education" insert "; creating new provisions; amending ORS 326.051, 327.016, 327.180, 327.185, 327.190, 327.201, 327.208, 327.222, 327.224, 327.235, 327.254, 327.362, 327.837, 329.095, 329.485, 334.217 and 336.680 and section 2, chapter 6, Oregon Laws 2024; repealing ORS 327.214 and 337.065; and declaring an emergency". Delete lines 4 through 8 and insert: "PERFORMANCE GROWTH METRICS "SECTION 1. Sections 2 to 6 of this 2025 Act are added to and made a part of ORS 327.006 to 327.133. "SECTION 2. As used in sections 2 to 6 of this 2025 Act: "(1) 'Disaggregated' means separated based on student group. "(2) 'Eighth-grade mathematics proficiency rate' means the percentage of students in the eighth grade who are determined to be proficient or above in mathematics, as determined under rules adopted by the State Board of Education. "(3) 'Five-year completion rate' means the percentage of students who received a high school diploma, a modified diploma or an extended diploma or who received a certificate for passing an approved high school equivalency test such as the General Educational Development test (GED) within five years of the student beginning the ninth grade. "(4) 'High school diploma' means a diploma that is awarded to …