Citing the need to take the discussion on resolving the
McCleary Lawsuit to a new level, State School Superintendent Randy Dorn
introduced his plan to fully fund McCleary last week at a press conference in
Olympia. The proposal would extend the phase-in of McCleary to 6 years in
order to leave time to recruit and train enough teachers and support staff to
meet class size reduction requirements. Unlike current plans on the
table, the Dorn Plan funds class size reductions for K-12 and require fully
funding teacher compensation at the state level. His revenue proposal was
rolled out in an additional press conference on Monday morning and is described
below in a separate article.
PTA State Legislative Director Sherry Krainick attended the
event and gave Dorn high marks for addressing the entire McCleary issue head
on. She was echoed by McCleary team lead Eden Mack who gave kudos to the
Superintendent's proposal, but stopped short of full support citing the need to
include increased capital funding to meet the class size reduction mandate.
For further review, here is the State Board of Education’s synopsis
of McCleary, the video
of the press conference and the full
proposal.
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