EEF helps build strong public schools and support all students through tax-deductible contributions.
The new Open Books site shows our spending...and a whole lot more.
Eugene Education Fund:
The Eugene Education Fund builds strong public schools by promoting community involvement and encouraging financial support. EEF was established in 1993 to support all students in Eugene School District 4J.
Community members can make gifts that are unrestricted, or designated for a particular school or program. They also can be placed in an endowment to benefit students for years to come. Because EEF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, gifts are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
For more information, please visit www.eeflane.org or call (541) 343-6877.
Open Books Project:
School districts across Oregon have a new tool to show how they spend money and how students are doing in school, thanks to the ChalkBoard Project. It's called Open Books.
We think it’s important to share data in ways our community can easily understand, because knowledge is key to good decision‐making and is especially critical as we face shrinking resources. Keeping parents and citizens informed is a top priority. Most Oregonians don't know how public school dollars are spent, how their local school district fared on the latest assessment test, or how many kids are graduating from high school. We’d like to help change that.
For instance, did you know that Oregon teachers average 13 years of
experience? Or that central administration accounts for just 2.6
percent of 4J's budget? Or that more Eugene students meet or exceed
academic standards in reading, writing and math than average for
Oregon? At www.openbooksproject.org,
you can look up Eugene School District 4J and compare us to all the
surrounding school districts, or to similar-sized districts across the
state.
This site might look familiar, since we used to link to the old
OpenBook$ site that included budget information. The new version has a
great deal more information. They’ve added four more major categories:
achievement, student data, teachers, and community information. The
data is available and split out for every district, and for the state.
The Chalkboard Project was created in 2004 as an independent voice for public schools. Its goal is to inspire Oregonians to make the state’s K–12 public schools among the nation’s best, while strengthening our school system’s financial accountability to taxpayers. For more information, call (877) YOUR‐K12 or visit www.chalkboardproject.org.
