The Oklahoma Education Department has released a new plan to address the ongoing woes of the state’s education system,reports Oklahoma Watch.
The goals of the plan include reducing the state’s recent reliance on emergency certified teachers and raising the state’s high school graduation rate to 90 percent. The plan will also try to ease hunger in schools, and force underfunded public schools that have gone to a four-day school week to fix their calendars.
The plan, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act, was submitted to the U.S. Department of Education in a 218-page document this week.
Other goals of the education plan include helping Oklahoma to score among the top 20 states on the “Nation’s Report Card,” reducing the need for college remediation in math and English by 50 percent, and making sure all students develop an Individualized Career Academic Plan.