Today is the final meeting of the HB2722 Advisory Committee, more commonly referred to as the African American Achievement Gap Committee. The committee is meeting in Olympia to finalize its report and implementation plan.
The committee set four key goals:
- Early learning: By 2014, provide all African-American children, birth to five, with high quality and academically focused early education to prepare them for success in school.
- Graduation rates: Increase the on-time and extended graduation rates for African-American students to reach parity with the highest-performing demographic group by 2014, and to achieve a 100 percent graduation rate by 2018. All graduates should be work and college ready without the need for remediation.
- Success in post-secondary education and job training: By 2018, increase the number of African-American students entering and completing post-secondary education and/or job training to be at or above parity with the highest-performing demographic group, and to achieve 100 percent participation by 2022.
- Teacher quality: By 2014, all school districts ensure that teachers and administrators in schools with 20 percent or more African-American students are qualified, trained and effectively meeting th eacademic, cultural and social needs of these students.
Check back for updates on the meeting, and the committee’s final recommendations.
