Task forces will develop policy recommendations to the State Board of Education on key components of the State Plan. A description of each task force and a schedule of their first two meeting dates are enclosed for your information. We ask you to consider participating on a task force and to share this information with your colleagues, encouraging and supporting their participation. In general, we expect that task forces will meet six to eight times between May and November. Each task force, however, will set meeting schedules and locations based on its workplan and membership.
Funds are available to assist in travel and substitute teacher expenses.
If you are interested in serving on a task force, the enclosed form must be received in the Office of Professional Technical Education by May 7 . This short timeline is necessary to form the task forces before school ends. In order to keep task forces to a manageable size, we will try to limit the membership if large numbers of people express interest in a particular topic. Should that occur, members will be selected using a broad range of criteria to assure diversity of stakeholder representation. We will confirm task force membership status with each person who volunteers to serve.