The state currently has around nine different programs where learners can earn college credits and quality credentials in high school. The task force spent its time together examining these existing programs, including their funding and outcomes, and identified a number of challenges in the current system. The task force determined that the current postsecondary and workforce readiness system should be wholly and thoroughly reexamined. When reviewing and considering changes to the system, the task force emphasized the need for a learner-centered approach. Because the current system grew out of multiple programs developed over a number of years, it was not necessarily designed with learner needs at the center. As such, simply tinkering around the edges of what is in place in the current system is not likely to achieve the goals and outcomes desired.
The federal Clean Water Act requires that stormwater discharges from certain types of facilities be authorized under stormwater discharge permits. The goal of the stormwater permits program is to reduce the amount of pollutants entering streams, lakes and rivers as a result of runoff from residential, commercial and industrial areas. The original 1990 regulation covered municipal (i.e., publicly-owned) storm sewer systems for municipalities over 100,000 population. The regulation was expanded in 1999 to include smaller municipalities as well. This expansion of the program is referred to as Phase II.
