Julia Silverman

For 10 yrs, OR has invested significantly (not surpassingly) in schools. In the past 8 yrs, math/reading have tanked+enrollment has fallen off a cliff (pandemic+birth rate). Is the answer more $? Maybe. But some say OR needs to fix HOW that $ is spent. buff.ly/4hsSlFP

@hairwaytosteve @PPSConnect @shanedkavanaugh Yes, but the votes were unanimous.

@jrlsilverman @PPSConnect @shanedkavanaugh Yeah but don't they have an odd number of members

Say what you will a/b the @PPSConnect school board, but they pulled off a leadership election tonight with a remarkable amount of comity. Maybe the Portland City Council should take some notes? cc: @shanedkavanaugh.

Text from son. Uh-oh. Also, kind of surprised we made it all the way to December, frankly.

Should I live-tweet it? Votes in comments pls.

I will bring the🍿to the Nov. 19 hearing at the OR legislature's joint committee on Public Education Appropriations on this bombshell new report: oregonlive.com/education/2025…

Made my O-Line son a personalized Wordle in honor of tonight’s big game. The clue was “Friday Night Lights.” He got it in 4!

ICE agents hold teens at gunpoint at Dutch Bros in Hillsboro This is one of several examples of how ICE is operating in Oregon. ⁦@Oregonian⁩ oregonlive.com/crime/2025/10/…

When you've read all the protest news from Portland today, take a minute to dive into the proposed major changes for attendance zones at PPS high schools in N/NE Portland: oregonlive.com/education/2025…

Trump administration doling out access to select right-wing media personalities equates to propaganda, experts say Important story by ⁦⁦@lrmongeau⁩ ⁦@Oregonian⁩ oregonlive.com/politics/2025/…

Genuinely do feel like NYT trying to send Portland a message. Strands #582 “In for the evening” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵

Now is a great time to subscribe to @Oregonian and support local journalism, work like this story and the other excellent coverage produced by my colleagues in these uncertain times. oregonlive.com/subscribe/?utm…

🔎The state does not track how long it takes to resolve the cases in its system, though it has the right to grant itself multiple extensions. @hborrud had to build a database of all outstanding cases and how long they’ve been awaiting resolution.

My colleague @hborrud is out today with a banger of a story on the Oregon families who are stuck waiting for years while @ORDeptEd drags out investigations into their claims of discrimination against their school districts: (🎁'd link) oregonlive.com/education/2025…

NYT Strands with a message for Portland today? Or coincidence? Strands #581 “Don't take the bait” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🟡🔵

@JohnTapogna @ChadAldeman @adams_d65845 @ORDeptEd And PS: If your kids are missing big chunks of school, then that's part of the problem. This isn't all on the school system: parents need to get their kids to school in the AM, ready to learn.

Tnx to those who spoke w/ me for this story, incl @JohnTapogna, @ChadAldeman, @adams_d65845 and those at @ORDeptEd who help reporters statewide unpack this data.

All eyes are on the ICE building in PDX. What is happening there is important. But the annual release of test score data from ODE matters too, for the future of Oregon's children, the health of its public school system+the state's economy. 🧵 🎁'd link: oregonlive.com/education/2025…

@otis @Oregonian 11th grade figures are virtually unusable anyway, given high opt-out rates. That is why our stories focus on grades 3-8. As the parent of an 11th grader facing PSATs, SATs and IB tests this year, I am sympathetic but will not opt him out of OSAS (no matter how much he begs.)

@jrlsilverman @Oregonian That is a great resource! Thank you for sharing. Thank you for the follow up. That is all good to hear. I'm curious what these numbers I had from last year are now. Perhaps it was on grade (11th) as I look back at my spreadsheet.

@jrlsilverman Thank you for your great article on the latest test scores. Your callout on the changes to the results appears to be a dramatic change. In my district the change appears to give an ~6-10% boost to results when looking at how it was last calculated. Is that correct?

@otis This is a great time to plug @Oregonian's handy "Your Schools" lookup guide, which has great data visualizations going back to pre-pandemic, plus school level results. Here is that link for Corvallis: schools.oregonlive.com/district/Corva…

@otis I don't see that for Corvallis SD. For ELA, w/ the recalculation applied, 55.6% of students across all grades were level 3/4, which signals proficiency. This year, it is 54.7. For math, last year's recalculated level is 42.8% proficiency and this year it is 42.7% proficient.