When the Reynolds School District cut six days from its calendar last fall to address a $5.5 million budget gap, Superintendent Frank Caropelo called his district “the canary in Oregon’s coal mine.” The loss of so many school days for some of the state’s most vulnerable students was the latest signal that Oregon’s 30-plus-year-old school funding formula was broken beyond repair, he said. Since then, influential school leaders and lawmakers alike have acknowledged the need to reexamine how Oregon funds schools, especially the way it accounts for students in poverty. Read more at the link in our bio. 📷: bethnakamura #education #oregoneducation #oregon #theoregonian