by Ty Davison | Apr 18, 2025 | News & Commentary
Kotek fires head of troubled Oregon public defense agency • Oregon Capital Chronicle: Gov. Tina Kotek fired Jessica Kampfe, the head of the Oregon Public Defense Commission, on Thursday morning. The agency oversees indigent defense for thousands of people charged with...
by Ty Davison | Apr 14, 2025 | News & Commentary
SENTENCED TO THE SIDEWALK: One woman’s misery reveals flaws in Oregon commitments – Salem Reporter: A five-month Salem Reporter investigation found that Kayser’s death was the inevitable conclusion of a statewide mental health system forged under the idea that...
by Ty Davison | Apr 12, 2025 | News & Commentary
In and around Portland, teachers are missing more school than ever. Their bosses don’t want to talk about it – oregonlive.com: For a 2025 report on teacher morale, national education news outlet Education Week surveyed what it says was a representative sample of...
by Ty Davison | Apr 12, 2025 | News & Commentary
Oregon voter registration errors began years earlier than DMV officials acknowledged – Salem Reporter: Data entry errors at the Oregon Department of Transportation that led to more than 1,700 people being incorrectly registered to vote despite not demonstrating...
by Ty Davison | Apr 10, 2025 | News & Commentary
Mississippi(!) has the best demographic-adjusted NAEP (4th & 8th grade) scores now. How did they fix themselves? In 2012, they introduced phonics-based instruction and began to hold back about 10% of 3rd graders per year who failed at reading. Oregon—dead last by...
