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Rep. Bonamici said she sees hope and promise for the future when she speaks with students.
“The state of education is promising. We’ve had a lot of challenges, obviously, through the pandemic with school closures and the disrupted learning, but I’m very optimistic because we have such dedicated educators here," Rep. Bonamici said.
“I’m excited to be here at Tamarack Elementary School today because it is a school that is right from day one, ready to get kids learning and inspired and excited about learning. There's art on the walls. There are labs where they can collaborate. There's a partnership with OMSI. It is a school that is really here to prepare students for the future,” Bonamici said.
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Bonamici’s proposed bill, which she plans to introduce in September, will be based on the Beaverton School District's “Fake and Fatal” program — a campaign educating students to prevent deaths from opioids and other counterfeit pills.
Along with the hundreds of Beaverton families and students lined up to get their free school supplies, U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici was in attendance at the event as well.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, is planning to introduce new legislation next month on Capitol Hill to provide grants to school districts across the country for fentanyl awareness programs.
Oregon officials and Becerra said prevention is key to driving down the overdoses and drug usage.
Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici will soon bring a bill to Congress that would fund a version of Beaverton’s “Fake and Fatal” program across the country and help keep kids from taking fentanyl amid an ongoing drug epidemic.
An open-source curriculum developed in Beaverton to educate tweens and teens about the ferocious risks of opioid abuse could soon be a model for schools around the country.