All Roll Calls
Yes: 74 • No: 33
OregonSB 1412025 Regular SessionSenate
Relating to education; and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored By: Sponsor information unavailable
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
8 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 5 mixed.
Struggling districts get help with conditions
Oregon must offer districts help meeting student growth targets, including help choosing and using effective practices. After two missed years, districts must accept coaching, staff training, and peer support, first required in 2028–2029. After three or more missed years, districts must enter intensive coaching and receive extra funding used as the state directs. To keep that extra funding, boards and superintendents must accept team recommendations about state school, Student Investment Account, and coaching funds. Intensive coaching participation lasts at least four years once a district agrees. The first progress review uses 2026–2027 results; districts with coaching agreements predating the law can finish those agreements first.
Families gain school standards complaint channels
The State Board must enforce state standards for public schools and education service districts. By December 31, 2026, it must establish complaint processes for both systems. District residents and parents or guardians of students attending school in the district can report failures to meet standards. Education service district complaints can address service and facility standards.
School grants support health and learning
Student Investment Account grants must address students' mental or behavioral health needs and improve academic achievement. This includes closing gaps for low-income students, underserved racial groups, students with disabilities, English learners, foster students, and homeless students. For applications meeting grant requirements, the state must confirm growth targets or help applicants develop them. Applicable targets must appear in grant agreements. State grant assistance must cover promising practices tied to those agreements, replacing language specifically focused on practices for meeting growth targets.
Schools must track and publish student progress
Oregon districts receiving State School Fund money must track graduation, five-year completion, ninth-grade progress, eighth-grade math, third-grade reading, and attendance. Attendance measures cover all grades and kindergarten through second grade separately. Districts also choose one local measure from a state list of no more than five. The state sets statewide targets and targets for similar districts, then helps districts set growth targets that track student-group gaps. Districts must publish annual results online and at their main office, present them at public meetings, and allow public comment. The state checks results annually and may audit performance. Amended state reporting rules take effect January 1, 2028; the first report is due February 1, 2028, covering 2026–2027.
School grant reviews and penalties change
The law removes separate Student Investment Account requirements for annual recipient progress reviews and performance reviews every four years. It also removes the state's specified two-year target checks and related corrective steps under that grant process. These removals do not end the law's separate annual district reviews. When recipients spend grant money contrary to their agreements, the state can now direct future grant money toward specific investments.
Schools must test student progress more
Starting in 2026–2027, districts and public charter schools must give approved math and language arts assessments at least three times yearly. The State Board must approve a list of no more than four assessments by January 31, 2026. Administrators must review kindergarten-through-eighth-grade results at least three times yearly. District superintendents and boards, and applicable charter boards, must also review those results at least three times yearly in public meetings. The assessment amendments take effect July 1, 2026.
Struggling reading programs face state direction
The state gains more tools to address missed early literacy goals in districts and public charter schools. When the education department intervenes, it can require reading textbooks or materials from the State Board's adopted list. It can also require state-identified training or improvement activities.
District coaching funded; state spending capped
Student Success Teams Account money is continuously available to Oregon's education department for intensive district coaching and support teams. This funding is no longer limited to districts with the highest needs. Statewide Education Initiatives Account money also funds coaching and technical help, and may provide extra money to participating districts. The law sets no total coaching award amount. It caps department spending from that account on specified accountability and transparency work at $2.625296 million for July 1, 2025–June 30, 2027.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
There is no primary sponsor on record.
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 6/16/2025
Third reading. Carried by Ruiz. Passed.
Yes: 39 • No: 15
Senate vote • 6/5/2025
Third reading. Carried by Sollman. Passed.
Yes: 18 • No: 11
legislature vote • 5/30/2025
Ways and Means: Heard and Reported Out with Amendments
Yes: 13 • No: 6
Senate vote • 4/9/2025
Education: Heard and Reported Out with Amendments
Yes: 4 • No: 1
Actions Timeline
Effective date, June 24, 2025.
7/2/2025SenateChapter 406, 2025 Laws.
7/2/2025SenateGovernor signed.
6/24/2025SenateSpeaker signed.
6/17/2025HousePresident signed.
6/17/2025SenateThird reading. Carried by Ruiz. Passed.
6/16/2025HouseRules suspended. Carried over to June 16, 2025 Calendar.
6/13/2025HouseRules suspended. Carried over to June 13, 2025 Calendar.
6/12/2025HouseRules suspended. Carried over to June 12, 2025 Calendar.
6/11/2025HouseSecond reading.
6/10/2025HouseRecommendation: Do pass.
6/10/2025HouseReferred to Ways and Means.
6/9/2025HouseFirst reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
6/9/2025HouseVote explanation(s) filed by Sollman.
6/6/2025SenateThird reading. Carried by Sollman. Passed.
6/5/2025SenateSecond reading.
6/4/2025SenateRecommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.)
6/3/2025SenateWork Session held.
5/30/2025SenateReturned to Full Committee.
5/28/2025SenateWork Session held.
5/28/2025SenateAssigned to Subcommittee On Education.
5/24/2025SenateReferred to Ways and Means by order of the President.
4/18/2025SenateRecommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means. (Printed A-Eng.)
4/18/2025SenateWork Session held.
4/9/2025SenatePublic Hearing held.
4/7/2025Senate
Bill Text
JWM Amendment -A7 (Adopted)
5/30/2025
JWMED Amendment -A7 (Proposed)
5/28/2025
SED Amendment -1 (Proposed)
4/9/2025
SED Amendment -2 (Proposed)
4/9/2025
SED Amendment -3 (Proposed)
4/9/2025
SED Amendment -4 (Proposed)
4/9/2025
SED Amendment -5 (Adopted)
4/9/2025
SED Amendment -2 (Proposed)
4/7/2025
SED Amendment -3 (Proposed)
4/7/2025
SED Amendment -1 (Proposed)
3/12/2025
A-Engrossed
B-Engrossed
Enrolled
Introduced
Senate Amendments to A-Engrossed
Senate Amendments to Introduced
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