HB 3200 Funding for (Race Diversity) Student Success
This bill seeks $10,000,000 from the state’s corporate activities tax to the scholarship program for culturally and linguistically diverse teacher candidates. Oregon revised statute 342.433’s constitutionally problematic definition of “diverse” to include specific racial groups has led to the dismantling of one state program and an amendment to at least one bill over constitutional concerns. The bill received a hearing in…