Assistance and Intervention. Each subcommittee is co-chaired by members of the commission. One is from the education field and the other is a member from the community who is also on the commission. The composition of the subcommittees is representative of the education community as well as the general community at large. All of our meetings, whether full commission or subcommittee meetings, are open to the public.
Subcommittees currently meet twice per month and the full commission meets once per month.
The plan is to have the subcommittees deliver their recommendations to the commission at the May 1 meeting. We have statutory requirements to deliver our proposal to the Legislature by September 5, 2000. The commission also may make other policy recommendations. In addition there are issues such as simplicity, fairness, preference for local control, privacy, and others. Patrick Patrick introduced Joe Willhoft, who is Tacoma's School District's Director of Research and Evaluation.