Andrea Castañeda, superintendent of the Salem-Keizer School District, was blunt in her assessment of students’ academic achievement across the state.
“Oregon should be worried.”
She showed a room full of business leaders a graph of 8th grade math test results — for the state and her district. Just 29% of Oregon 8th graders were proficient in math when tested last spring. In Salem-Keizer, it was just under 23%.
Her Monday speech to a Salem Area…
