Education Advocates: Reform Plan Not Enough; They Say Schools Need More Than Washington Learns

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OLYMPIA -- Education advocates from around the state told a Senate committee Thursday that transforming Washington's education system to meet 21st century challenges will require more than Gov. Chris Gregoire's school reform blueprint, called Washington Learns.

For one thing, capital construction funds will be needed to build all the new kindergartens and science labs envisioned in the plan, a delegation of developers, Realtors and school and local government officials from Clark County said.

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Education Advocates: Reform Plan Not Enough; They Say Schools Need More Than Washington Learns

"We support much of what Washington Learns proposes," said Evergreen Public Schools Superintendent John Deeder. But to provide full-day kindergartens, he said, "we would need 42 new classrooms. We already have 8,000 students in portables."

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