ENLARGE
Dan Forbess works with freshman Joshawa Delgado recently in the wood shop at Oakland High School. Forbess is superintendent at both the Oakland and the North Douglas School District. Due to funding shortfalls this year, he's teaching industrial arts, too.
State funding for schools fell by more than 4 percent for the 2009-11 biennium, according to the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators, which represents the state's 2,000 administrators. Douglas County schools feel the pinch, too.
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