“Committed in her Recommended Budget to increase the State School Fund current service level by $600 million, for a total K-12 investment of $11.36 billion.”
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All three cited sources are reachable and every cited quote appears verbatim. Source 3 (Governor's Recommended Budget "Building on Progress," Dec. 18, 2024) confirms the promise as made: "$600 million increase to strengthen the State School Fund Current Service Level (CSL) for a total of $11.36 billion" — Kotek personally authored this exact figure in her executive budget. Source 1 (Governor's Office, July 31, 2025) confirms the delivered outcome: SB 5516 set the State School Fund at "a historic $11.36 billion" for 2025-27, "delivering on the Governor's promise to educators and districts," and Kotek signed it. Source 2 (OSBA, independent secondary) confirms the enacted figure matched the proposed figure exactly: "the approval of an $11.36 billion State School Fund" on May 28. CHAMPIONED (not merely FULL) is supported because Kotek authored the precise $11.36B/$600M figure in her Recommended Budget, that number carried through the legislative process unchanged, she signed the final appropriation, and her office frames it as delivering on her promise — genuine executive leadership beyond a single act. Note: two supporting claims in the original rationale ("publicly campaigned for the number throughout the session," and that she "introduced" HB 2140 — governors do not introduce bills) are not independently verified by these sources and are minor overstatements, but they are not load-bearing for the CHAMPIONED determination, which rests on the verified authored-figure/enacted-match/signed-into-law chain.
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