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Joint Interim Committee on Student Success Recommendations
December 10, 2018 - Throughout 2018, a bipartisan team of legislators visited various school districts and talked with hundreds of teachers, students, parents, and community members about what it would take to ensure our public education system is preparing all students for success.
The three major workgroups - Students Ready and Able to Learn, High Quality Classrooms, and College and Career Ready - released their recommendations in early November:
- Students Ready and Able to Learn
- Expand early childhood services and learning, including more state-subsidized preschool.
- Increase counselors, mental health professionals, nurses and other staff to help students.
- Establish need-based funding separate from the State School Fund for student support services.
- Expand food programs.
- Increase learning time.
- Support efforts to improve attendance.
- High Quality Classrooms
- $20.7 million in new funding for local teacher recruitment.
- Align collective bargaining with the Legislature’s biennial budget cycle.
- More educator professional development support.
- Increase grant funding for capital improvements and seismic rehabilitation.
- Establish a statewide school safety system.
- Implement the policy goals of the Quality Education Model, including funding for reduced class sizes and more elementary school specialists and alternative programs.
- Implement a broad array of programs to help students with alternative needs.
- College and Career Ready
- Fully fund Measure 98, which gives schools support for career and technical education programs, post-secondary opportunities and dropout prevention.
- Require schools to have dropout intervention strategies, attendance teams, and family engagement plans.
- Create a student advisory group.
- Establish a statewide re-engagement plan for students who left school.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of statewide assessments.
Funding for these recommendations is yet to be determined; however more information may be forthcoming in the Committee’s final report, which is expected to be released in late December.