School boards across Oregon are urging lawmakers to invest more in education.  At least 28 boards have passed resolutions calling on the Legislature to make big increases in funding.  State funding for schools is about nine percent below the national average and Oregon’s graduation rate is 78 percent – second-worst in the nation.  Carrie Douglass with the Bend-LaPine School Board says the lack of adequate funds stretches schools thin, with teachers sometimes buying their own supplies or doing tasks outside of their already demanding jobs.  The Joint Committee on Student Success released a report last month laying out education priorities and fixes that would cost an estimated three-billion dollars.  Governor Kate Brown also outlined a two-billion-dollar boost in funding.  The state’s public pension program is likely on the agenda as well, but Douglass hopes that conversation doesn’t derail the push for education funding at the Capitol.