Estimate Committee prepares estimated fiscal impact statements for any ballot measures that will appear on the ballot. The estimate prepared by this committee for Measure 60 says: Measure 60 would require between $30 and $72 million in additional state and local spending in the first year. After the first year, it would require between $30 and $60 million a year in additional state and local spending. Supporters Preserve Our Best Teachers was the name of the committee sponsoring the original initiative. There is no committee filed to support the ballot measure. The Oregonian reported in September 2007 that Nevada millionaire Loren Parks was the leading contributor to Measure 60. Randall J. Pozdena, Ph.D., of the Cascade Policy Institute, authored a commentary that argued, "Absent serious structural reforms such as school-level competition, paying for performance in the classroom may be the best way to stimulate higher academic achievement among our K-12 public school students." Arguments in favor of Measure 60 Good teachers should be rewarded. "While money may not be the only way to attract the teachers we need, it is a useful tool and one we can readily wield." What's more important to our kids' education: tenure or good teaching skills? (Oregon doesn't have tenure.) The proposal will "reward good teachers, weed out bad ones and improve the quality of the state's schools." Opposition Measure 60 is opposed by the Parents and Teachers Know Better Coalition, which describes itself as "a broad coalition of parents, teachers, and school advocates who care about Oregon's students & schools." The Parents and Teachers Know Better campaign is part of the Defend Oregon Coalition, which opposes all five of the ballot initiatives on the 2008 ballot measures that are sponsored by Sizemore. Members of the coalition include Stand for Children, Oregon PTA, United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley, Oregon Education Association, American Federation of Teachers-Oregon, Oregon School Employees Association, and the Human Services Coalition of Oregon, among others. Arguments against Measure 60 Notable arguments made against Measure 60 include: Because none of the terms are defined in the measure, there is no way to know how teachers will actually be judged, or who will be doing the judging. It is "costly, ill-conceived, inflexible and potentially damaging to the children of Oregon...poorly written, vague and not based on best practices." It could lead to more standardized testing and cause low-income areas to lose teachers. Donors