Education

At a time when our nation is facing a health care shortage, especially in primary care, now is not the time to cut off the student pipeline to these programs.

Strengthening education is the best way to improve lives and sustain the economy.

Having a robust workforce is essential to growing the economy, and there are commonsense steps we can take to help workers find and obtain quality jobs.

“Continuing and potential new grantees, all of which are colleges and non-profit organizations, were slated to receive funding and begin providing support to students by July 1 but have yet to receive the funding that Congress provided earlier this year,” the lawmakers wrote to Director Vought and Secretary McMahon. “We understand the Department of Education informed HEP and CAMP leaders in June that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was reviewing these programs, but grantees have not received follow up information as to when the funds will be released, which has imposed challenges on individuals and families served by these programs and applicants and grantees (and their employees) impacted by the uncertainty and delay.”

Excluding some immigrant children from early education may create greater costs over time.

Any withholding of these critical funds will negatively affect the State of Oregon’s efforts to increase academic outcomes for all our students, particularly our multilingual and migrant education students.

There is nothing beautiful about this bill. Over the past several weeks I've heard from many constituents in NW Oregon who are overwhelmingly opposed to this harmful and partisan legislation.