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Founding Texts

The scholarship that grounds the litigation.

OASTL’s founding text — the legal and historical case for Oregon’s accountability.

Oregon's Constitutional Duties to Schools (2025) — book cover
OASTL Founding Scholarship · 2025

Oregon’s Constitutional Duties to Schools

by Margaret Bird & Dave Sullivan

Co-authored by OASTL board members Margaret Bird and Dave Sullivan, Oregon’s Constitutional Duties to Schools presents the legal, historical, and fiduciary case for state accountability under the 1859 Admissions Act. Available free as a PDF download; also available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardback formats.