Currently, less than 5 percent of California's elementary schools have physical education specialists on staff.
Yet eliminating the department would send the wrong message, most education specialists say.
A teacher and an outdoor education specialist accompany each group.
Each grade's teachers have a common daily planning period when classes are taught by art, music, or physical education specialists.
The commission took 20 months to interview deaf education specialists, students and school administrators before making its 144-page report.
No state currently requires its colleges and universities to test students for drugs, according to education specialists.
But this is the first time a profit-making company has tried to treat an entire district's school system like a business, education specialists say.
His mother, Sharon, an education specialist, worked at home.
It employs a number of advisers and education specialists.
A special education specialist works with children with learning disabilities, who make up roughly 13% of the overall student population.