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[State] Oregon [Score] 0 [Charter Law Description] 
Oregon law provides that per-pupil funding for charter schools is 80 percent of the weighted Average Daily Maintenance (ADMw) funding formula for students in grades K-8 and 95 percent of ADMw for students in grades 9-12. The ADMw formula assumes that a charter school serves the same percentage of students in poverty as the district in which it is located. Oregon law provides that special education funds go to the LEA of residence and establishes the minimum percentages of funds the resident district provides to the charter school. In a national study of charter school funding (University of Arkansas, Charter School Funding: Inequity Expands, 2014), Oregon charter schools were receiving on average $5,835 per pupil in public funds, while traditional public schools would have received $9,843 for those students. As a result, the state’s charter schools were receiving $4,008 per pupil—or 40.7 percent—less than what the traditional public schools would have received for those students. This figure includes all sources of funding, and analysis reveals significant continued inequities for both operational and capital funding (see Component #19 for information on capital issues).
18. Equitable Operational Funding and Equal Access to All State and Federal Categorical Funding | National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Charter Law Description