P-20 finance in Oregon

The Governance Divide, a must-read for anyone serious about P-20 reform, called for state funding systems to become K-16 if education systems were to be truly aligned.

This past week, Governor Kitzhaber of Oregon took a first step toward this level of alignment, creating an Oregon Education Investment Team whose charges include "designing a new model for early childhood and family investment" and, perhaps most importantly, "designing a unified, performance based 0-20 budget model for consideration by the 2012 legislative session."

While a small number of states have created a single board/agency to oversee early learning through postsecondary, none of these states appears to have created a performance-based system.