Pre-Thanksgiving Meetings On Education At State Capitol
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The House majority leader is preparing to
pitch his middle-of-the-road approach to overhauling public
education. He wants colleagues to back his plan on how to best
implement court-ordered school reforms.
Representative Harmon Seawel`s turn comes tomorrow at a
pre-Thanksgiving meeting of the House and Senate education
committees.
The panels have been meeting jointly for weeks reviewing
education proposals without reaching agreement on a plan to meet a
state Supreme Court-imposed January first deadline to reform a
system that the high court declared unconstitutional in November
2002.
The ruling came down more than a year ago, and legislators are
two weeks from the start of a likely special session. They remain
torn between consolidating small school districts to better afford
costly reforms and sharply raising taxes to pay for improvements in
all 308 districts.
Huckabee`s office says the governor may not call the special
session if it does not look like a plan will be approved.
