Recommendations of the Washington Basic Education Task Force

AP:

Among the recommendations from the state's Basic Education Task Force to the state Legislature:

• Paying teachers different amounts, comparable to regional wages paid to nonschool employees in their communities.
• Defining basic education as the schooling needed to help students meet new high-school-graduation requirements adopted by the state Board of Education, and Washington's college-admission standards.
• Increasing instructional time, particularly for high-school students, and therefore paying teachers more.
• Decreasing class sizes in grades kindergarten through third grade.
• Paying teachers for a set number of training days outside of the 180 days of instructional time and strictly reserving all instructional days for education.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 11, 2008 1:01 AM
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