One of the state’s highest performing high schools gets help to make up for budget cuts by legislators. The Booker T. Washington Foundation for Excellence will take money from its’ rainy day fund to restore four teaching positions and reduce class sizes. State Representative Regina Goodwin, a BTW graduate, was on hand for the announcement, and lamented that lawmakers didn’t do more for education.
The foundation money will pay for teachers in math, science, social studies, and Chinese, and allow classes to be cut from 35 students to 25.