Bradbury For Educators

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Dear OEA Members,

The defining challenge of the next Governor will be to address public education in Oregon and the crisis of funding it faces. 

For the past two decades, we have starved our state's public education of the support it needs in order for our children to thrive. 

As educators you are on the front line of this funding crisis. You have seen first-hand the impacts the lack of support has created: the second highest class sizes in the nation, longer days for less pay, attempts to roll back contracts, and crumbling schools. 

Now, the very leaders who were responsible for starving the system for so long are saying that public education in Oregon is failing our children. 

I think they have it backwards. It is the leaders of this state for the past 16 years who have failed you, our children and public education in Oregon. 

I intend to change that as your next Governor. 

That is why when I announced my candidacy for Governor I made fully funding education a central focus of my campaign. 

I have made the commitment to fund education at the Quality Education Model level in my first term as Governor. I have a specific plan to accomplish this and invite you to read about it here. 

It is going to take new leadership with new ideas to accomplish this goal. It is going to take leadership that respects and involves you, the educators and education support professionals, as the experts you are. It will also take leadership that understands education is the foundation upon which we grow our economy and make Oregon the sustainability capital of the world. 

I will provide that leadership and I am asking for your support to become the next Governor of Oregon. 

Sincerely,

Bill Bradbury