So it wants to limit state support to the curriculum standards.

He also made raising test scores and curriculum standards his priorities.

"If emphasis goes more to the curriculum standards and less to the tests," he said, "we are better off."

The curriculum standards are a step toward an overhaul of education for 1996.

The process of developing curriculum standards must not be done in a social vacuum.

The new curriculum standards are scheduled to be phased in from next fall through 2006.

Will the adoption of the national curriculum standards improve public education?

Most educators have been waiting for the cost analysis to determine how the new curriculum standards would affect their schools.

The program is later adopted in other jurisdictions and becomes a national curriculum standard.

The Whitman administration has said it will cost $7,200 per pupil to put the new curriculum standards into effect throughout the state.