For years, Oregon has had some of the biggest class sizes in the nation. Normally, we have about the fourth-highest number of students per teacher of any state, with Utah, California and Arizona commonly the only states worse than Oregon when it comes to packing kids into the classroom.
But a new report, just out today from the National Center for Education Statistics, is even bleaker.
It says that, during the 2007-08 school year, 48 other states managed to have fewer students per teacher than Oregon. That's right, when it comes to small classes, we're No. 49!
Read on.
Only Utah has larger class size. In Oregon, education has been a major issue for all of the 40+ years I've lived here, with little progress whatever on making it better. Great scenery but a lousy place to educate your kids? What's it take to get it right? And why should Oregon be considered such a great state if its education system sucks?
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