Ending the misleadingly-named "Secure Rural Schools" program won't have any affect on Oregon's rural schools.    The Oregon legislature decided that rural schools didn't really need it, and redirected most of it to urban schools in Portland and the Willamette Valley.   They did this by classifying the funds as "local revenues" and took away $1 of  equalization money for every $1 of SRS funds.

Nor will it make more than a dime's worth of difference to most rural cities and counties.    Lane and Douglas Counties are, by far, the two biggest recipients of the funds--and little of the money found its way outside of Eugene/Springfield and Roseburg.    

The  small timber towns and school districts really needed the money to offset the loss of the timber industry.    Too bad the law was so badly drafted and implemented that they didn't receive it.