About Us
Let Them Learn Oregon
Let’s Welcome School Choice to Oregon!
Through the legislature. Through the ballot box. Powered by your voice.
Our Vision
Let Them Learn Oregon envisions a state where elected officials and voters alike agree that every child should have access to the education option that fits their unique needs and are willing to pass, fund, and protect the policies necessary to make school choice a reality for all.
About
Let Them Learn Oregon is a 501c(4) organization and the action partner to School Choice Oregon. Let Them Learn Oregon drafts citizen constitutional school choice initiatives for the ballot, lobbies the Oregon Legislature to support constitutional and legislative school choice measures, and rallies a growing movement of Oregon parents, grandparents, and concerned citizens to advocate for bringing full school choice to the state of Oregon so that every student and family can thrive with education freedom.
Our Mission
Let Them Learn Oregon believes every child should have access to the education option that meets their unique learning needs. We exist to build the school choice movement and pass school choice policies in the state of Oregon through both the legislative process and the ballot.
Leadership
Donna Kreitzberg
Executive Director
Donna Kreitzberg is the Executive Director of Let Them Learn Oregon and School Choice Oregon and the architect of the 2024 constitutional Open Enrollment and School Choice citizen initiatives that galvanized the Oregon education freedom movement across the state.
Kreitzberg has a background as a real estate broker, CPA, tax accountant, business and real estate attorney, and small business owner, with a Masters in Management and Finance. After retiring, Kreitzberg knew she wanted to engage in charitable work that would allow her to give back and help others. An avid reader and lover of education, she dove into writing history workbooks that she taught to Middle Schoolers after school and during the summer. It was this passion that led her to uncover Oregon’s education crisis. She realized Oregon’s one-size-fits-all system was trapping some students in a school setting that was not working for them and blocking parents from choosing the right setting for their child.
Kreitzberg embarked on a journey of researching the legal and financial impacts of existing and proposed education choice programs across America. She then launched Education Freedom for Oregon (now School Choice Oregon (501(c3)) and Let Them Learn Oregon (501(c4))) and worked with Oregon parents, grandparents, teachers, state and national constitutional attorneys and policy experts from 20 states to draft constitutional initiatives for public school choice (open enrollment) and private school choice (Education Savings Account program). While Kreitzberg and her team of almost 1300 volunteers were not able to gather enough petition signatures to qualify the measures for the 2024 ballot, the effort galvanized a statewide movement of passionate advocates for education freedom and revealed the growing public appetite for education options being ignored by the state legislature. Today, through School Choice Oregon and Let Them Learn Oregon, Kreitzberg continues to lead this movement, with a goal of educating the public on the need for and benefits of school choice and eventually welcoming full education freedom without barriers to Oregon children and their families. She resides in Grants Pass with her family.
FAQs
What is School Choice?
School choice means that every student, regardless of income, zip code or learning style, has access to the education option that fits their unique learning needs. School choice can be accomplished through a variety of policies, including private school choice programs (sometimes called ESAs), open enrollment (the ability to enroll in any public school, regardless of zip code), tax credit scholarships, charter schools, and homeschooling. School choice is fully realized when every education option is within reach (financially and locationally) of every student in the state. So far, 38 states and over a million U.S. students have access to school choice.
What type of school choice legislation would Let Them Learn Oregon support?
While we are open to any legislative effort that opens more education options to Oregon students and protects the rights of parents and schools, our ultimate goal is constitutional universal school choice that provides every student with the option that fits their needs. We want no barriers to learning!
What does the data tell us about school choice?
That it works! We’re working on keeping updated data, stay tuned!
That it works! Read all the great data on the outcomes of school choice across the country here >>
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