Andrew Scott

@badguy974 @DavidLund6 @mattyglesias Curious how you feel about the government telling us we must buy domestic products by imposing tariffs (ie taxes) on foreign goods?

@DavidLund6 @mattyglesias sure, because leftists ordered we buy ev's. they wouldn't exist without that. gas cars were banned in europe by 2035 for example and California as well by the democrats.

@soofriends @gozidad @NateSilver538 @CNN The point is that there are dozens of drugs people take for chronic conditions, some of which could be controlled by lifestyle changes instead of drugs. But we only attack overweight people taking Ozempic. Why is that? Maybe just let individuals make decisions with their doctors?

@gozidad @Drewid95 @NateSilver538 @CNN It's a good argument if all the obese people taking it are eating healthy and triathletes.

I have -zero opinions about Ozempic etc but this has to be one of the most weirdly-framed headlines of all time.

@gozidad @NateSilver538 @CNN @gozidad I have high cholesterol. I’m not overweight. I eat healthy, exercise regularly (I’m a triathlete), and yet it remained high until I started taking a statin. Now it’s normal. I have to take the statin for the rest of my life. Am I pathetic?

@NateSilver538 No one should take it unless medically necessary. Eat healthy foods and exercise. Jesus. 1 in 3 Americans are obese. It’s pathetic that we are looking at drugs like Ozempic which @CNN pushes every day. Pathetic.

I think we’re not talking nearly enough about how the election was held on Guy Fawkes day. Honestly, should have seen this coming.

@jordan_pape @hborrud @jrlsilverman We’ve been running a natural experiment for decades with 197 Oregon school districts. If it’s all about “accountability” and not funding then surely some of those districts would have hired the right board and superintendent and figured it out, right? But they’ve all declined.

@Drewid95 @hborrud @jrlsilverman Can you walk us through how you calculate “decades of disinvestment?” Keeping it simple, just starting funding (either gross or per student), the year, the inflation rate, and the most current funding you’re comparing it to? Thank you

This is a bad take on 3 levels: 1. No one is asking for increased funding, no strings attached. 2. There is a difference between one time funding and ongoing funding. 3. It continues to let state officials off the hook for decades of disinvestment. @hborrud @jrlsilverman

@jordan_pape @hborrud @jrlsilverman So are you questioning the impact of Measures 5 and 50 on Oregon’s public schools? If so that’s definitely a contrarian take.

@kmcgair @PPSConnect @BrimJulia Closing schools doesn’t save that much - an administrator, a secretary, a custodian maybe, and a little bit in utilities, but the teachers follow the students. We will have to close schools if declining enrollment continues, but it’s not a viable short-term budget solution.

@jrlsilverman @citizen_oregon @hborrud 💯 But Hillary’s tweet gives cover to state leaders who are saying no more funding until school district’s do better, and that’s a recipe for another lost generation of Oregon students

@Drewid95 @citizen_oregon @hborrud I don’t think that was the take! I think there are legit qs to ask re: local control and decentralized guidance on federal pandemic money in the face of so much academic need.

@citizen_oregon @hborrud @jrlsilverman The article is great, I was referring to the take that more funding won’t solve the education crisis in Oregon. I guarantee we won’t solve it with the same funding. The article also notes PPS was one of the most successful districts in Oregon. And we have to do much better.

@Drewid95 @hborrud @jrlsilverman What is the bad take? Silverman’s article I think is extremely solid and well researched. What we see is most of the one time funds were used for things that didn’t help catch kids up. Pps should also have spot a lot more on tutoring. Pps BIPOC are also still behind.

Let’s start with something simple… “Williams said Oregon’s unusually short school year sets it apart from other states….”

@kmcgair @jordan_pape Apples to apples comparisons in education are hard (I looked for this piece but all have comparability issues). But generally speaking Oregon is average in both spending and outcomes. The idea that we can do dramatically better with the same or fewer resources seems unrealistic.

@jordan_pape Short of that, vague calls for “accountability” sound more like political blame-shifting than actual leadership.

PPS had a budget that spends $28,000/student, compared to an average state-wide spend of $16,000/student and an average tuition for private schools in Oregon of $10,000/student. At $430,000 spend per teacher/classroom, maybe the first step is to explain why we spend so much, with such poor results, before demanding more? As Gov Kotek has repeatedly said, there has to be accountability.

@jordan_pape The entire PPS budget is public and every dollar tracked. The state has a Quality Education Commission that says we’re dramatically underfunding our public schools. I welcome a conversation with anyone who has identified tens of millions in “waste.”

Opinion: After PPS teachers strike, Oregon’s leaders need to step up on education funding - oregonlive.com “We have to do better, all of us, and the governor and Legislature have an opportunity to make things right.” oregonlive.com/opinion/2024/0…

@DocAdams1020 Happy Thanksgiving!

Appreciate our @PPSConnect school board who joined our bargaining team this weekend to provide direction on continued compromises within our fixed resources until we arrive at a fair settlement.

Alert: PPS School Board to take action on resolution on GRANT BOWL Track & Field & BENSON Track replacement on 9/5 at 6:40 Andrew Scott & I bringing forward Resolution 6755. @PILathletics @PPSConnect @Drewid95 meetings.boardbook.org/Public/Agenda/…

@DocAdams1020 @SecCardona What a prestigious honor! Congratulations!

@jrlsilverman Not just less than what was asked for, but less than what is required to fund the same services as last year.

I do not think that @Drewid95 cared for my "windfall" phrasing. He notes that the Dems who run Salem gave schools advocates $200M less in general funds than they had asked for.

Popped into the @PPSConnect board meeting on this glorious summer evening to hear how the district wants to spend the extra $$ now that funding for schools is set at $10.2 B. Recommendations: *Put $6.2M into reserves *Put $5.6M into early literacy *Put $5.2M into salaries+wages