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 Seawels 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.
Huckabees office says the governor may not call the special
session if it does not look like a plan will be approved.
