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 Sonny Perdue's State of the State Address
Education package: GeorgiaLearns.com. GeorgiaLearns.com will inspire and empower students, parents, teachers and all educators to meet higher standards of accountability and achievement.
Early Childhood
Refocus the current Office of School Readiness as "Bright from the Start, Georgia's Office of Early Care and Education."
The Bright from the Start office will ensure that every child enters kindergarten ready for school success. It will improve coordination among Georgia's several early childhood programs, including the pre-K program and Smart Start. By eliminating duplication and bureaucracy, more money will go directly to benefit children's early learning. And by infusing early childcare centers with a greater culture of education, all of Georgia's children will get off to a bright start.
Teachers
Attract and keep the best teachers in our classrooms. Budget includes a 2% pay raise for teachers. And for veteran teachers there will be an additional increase. In total, the plan is to will give a 5% pay increase to nearly 75% of teachers statewide.
Georgia Learns.com will make it clear to disruptive students once and for all that teachers are in charge of the classroom.
Disruptive students will get the message that they must respect their teachers and their fellow students students need to know they can lose their driving privileges if they disrupt the learning process.
Accountability
GeorgiaLearns.com promotes accountability by giving local schools and systems the flexibility they need to reach high standards. And as individual schools show improvement they will be granted even greater flexibility to continue their success.
Replace demoralizing letter grades with numerical scores for schools so that continuous improvement can be measured.
Finance
Provide $62 million in added relief to the poorest of our state's school districts.
Financial Aid
HOPE scholarship: Include an SAT component to HOPE eligibility. Linking the SAT to HOPE will motivate students to take the test seriously and will lead to better preparation for college and higher SAT scores. Give an incentive to students who achieve on the SAT by extending their HOPE eligibility as a reward.
Higher Education
The Georgia Works bond package includes $10 million for a state-of-the-art biological research building at the University of Georgia.
It provides $5 million for the Medical College of Georgia Research Initiative that will launch new medical research projects and attract more federal research dollars.
Two million dollars will go toward a $45 million state commitment to construct a world class Nanotechnology Research Center at Georgia Tech.
http://www.gov.state.ga.us/speeches/2004_speeches/Jan14_2004.shtml
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