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John Kitzhaber's Oregon Dream
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Nation
Posted: August 6th, 2013
http://www.thenation.com/article/174473/john-kitzhabers-oreg...
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber is ... explaining the raft of education and healthcare reforms hes pushing. Its mid-February. The next week, the governor will receive notice that his state is one of six to be awarded a prestigious State Innovation Model grant, worth up to $45 million. Oregon received the grant because of the reforms Kitzhabers administration has pushed regarding delivery of medical services. Kitzhaber has particular credibility on these issues: hes not only a three-time governor but a former legislator and emergency-room doctor. He has earned a national reputation for thinking holistically. Only slightly tongue-in-cheek, Kitzhaber [discussed] his grandiosely named Unified Theory of Everything. For Kitzhaber, poverty and ill health are too often the result of inadequate education; fixing these problems is what he calls the left side of his unified theory. On the right side, he talks about the need to invest in clean technologies and renewables, to open routes to prosperity that neither denude the environment nor leave millions unemployed. Over the past two years, Kitzhaber has focused mainly on the left side of his equation, pushing through the Oregon legislaturewhich was almost evenly split between Republicans and Democrats from 2011 to 2012an extraordinary raft of reforms. The pathway up is early childhoodmaking sure that every child arrives at the classroom in kindergarten ready to learn. Kitzhaber has pushed the legislature to spend more on education in a drive to improve poorly performing schools.
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