COUNTYWIDE : Hearing Planned on Improving Schools
The state Department of Education will hold a regional hearing at the Ventura County superintendent of schools office in Camarillo on Monday to discuss ways to improve California’s high schools
The hearing will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Oxnard Room of the county superintendent’s office, 550 Airport Way, at Camarillo Airport. Testimony will be limited to three to five minutes, followed by questions from the panelists.
The hearing is one of 17 public forums sponsored by the California High School Task Force that have been held statewide to get ideas from the public on restructuring California’s high schools.
Parents, teachers, administrators and the public are invited to testify.
The goal of the task force is to recommend ways for schools to help students increase job skills, to decrease the dropout rate from 22% to 15%, and to raise the number of high school graduates who go on to college to 25%.
A similar task force five years ago examined middle schools and resulted in a report called “Caught in the Middle.” That report recommended several academic and structural changes at junior high and middle schools.
Created last March, the High School Task Force includes 65 educators and business people, who were named to the panel by state schools Supt. Bill Honig.
The task force will issue its final report by June, 1991.
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