Report: Tutors, preschool, teacher coaches needed

North Dakota's schools should make student tutoring, state-funded preschool and teacher coaching more widely available as part of a comprehensive improvement plan, a consultant's report says.

The state's Commission on Education Improvement will use the report's conclusions in making recommendations to the North Dakota Legislature next year, said its chairman, Lt. Gov. Jack Dalrymple. The panel discussed the report Wednesday, August 6, 2008, during a meeting in Dickinson.

"I think things have started to come together on a number of different fronts, but we still have a lot of work to do," Dalrymple said. "It's starting to jell." Read the Associated Press article in The Dickinson Press online.