The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2005 state of the state addresses. To assure that this information reaches you in a timely manner, minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) or format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the state.
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| Governor Bob Riley's State of the State Address
Finance
-- Education budget will invest more money in our classrooms than any other time in Alabama's history.
-- The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
-- My budget plan will fully fund all the requests made by our K through 12 system.
-- It will fully fund all the requests made by the Commission on Higher Education.
-- And every dime of our education dollars will only go to education activities.
-- That means textbooks are getting a 17 percent increase and are fully funded.
-- The Alabama Reading Initiative is fully funded.
-- The Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative is fully funded.
-- Professional development for our teachers - fully funded.
Technology
Announcing a new initiative called ACCESS - Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators and Students Statewide. ACCESS is a distance learning program that uses technology to connect teachers and students across the state, and potentially anywhere in the world. Through the use of the internet and videoconferencing, any student, anywhere in Alabama, will have the opportunity to take courses that are not currently available. Teachers will be able to use this technology to enhance classroom instruction and strengthen their professional development.
Budget devotes $10 million to this distance learning technology.
Teaching Quality
-- Launching the Alabama Commission on Teacher Quality to recommend ways we can better support teachers, retain them in schools with the greatest needs and reward them for results.
Teacher Compensation
-- Budget will provide a much-needed and much-deserved teacher pay raise of four percent.
-- Reward teachers who are doing a great job by linking their pay to their performance in the classroom.
Teacher Recruitment
-- Budget includes an incentive bonus for those who volunteer to teach in schools and in subject matters where there are teacher shortages.
Accountability
-- Pass education accountability reforms that require all school systems to be audited.
-- Eliminate tenure for school administrators.
-- Pass legislation that gives us the tools to reduce redundancy in higher education through improved accountability.
-- Strengthen open meetings law because greater public access and scrutiny is the hallmark of honest government.
http://www.governorpress.alabama.gov/pr/sp-2005-02-01-state2005.asp
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