Original Source | The Oregonian
by Yuxing Zheng Thursday February 26, 2009

Jane Grimm wears a tiara during playtime at Maryam's Preschool in Lake Oswego. Parents are using fewer days or a cheaper school to afford preschool during a recession.

Some parents at a recent Lake Oswego preschool forum were looking for more than just the right preschool.

A number were looking for a paycheck, either for themselves or a spouse.

Originally published on OregonLive.com
Posted by Karen Enns, Hood River, March 07, 2009 8:00PM

The Black Parent Initiative's achievement gap study found that African American Multnomah County students remain behind no matter what the grade, suggesting that they learn at the same rate as white students. It concludes that we need to intervene earlier than Kindergarten and focus more on prevention. In fact, we need to start as early as birth.

Original Source | Statesman Journal
By Peter Wong, Friday June 29, 2007

He says it's the largest increase in aid in a decade

With several strokes of the pen Thursday, Gov. Ted Kulongoski spent more than half the state's two-year tax-supported budget on education, from pre-kindergarten through graduate school.

To an audience of lawmakers, education officials and students gathered in the Capitol rotunda, Kulongoski said the budgets he proposed seven months ago and signed Thursday represent the largest increases in state aid in more than a decade.

Original Source | Statesman Journal
By Peter Wong, Monday June 4, 2009

Budget committee approves full funding for Head Start

Brayden Ferguson of Salem bit off part of a broccoli floret and boasted how good it was.

It was part of a lunch of raw vegetables, canned pears, sloppy joes on wheat buns, and milk that he shared with 17 other young children and a couple of adult visitors at the Head Start site on Wilbur Street SE.

He identified all four basic food groups for a visitor.