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.
To view these BY ISSUE, click here.
 | Alabama |
| |
| Alaska |
| |
| Arizona |
| |
| Arkansas |
| |
| California |
| |
| Colorado |
| |
| Connecticut |
| |
| Delaware |
| |
| Florida |
| |
| Georgia |
| |
| Hawaii |
| |
| Idaho |
| |
| Illinois |
| |
 | Indiana |
| |
| Governor Mitch Daniels State of the State Address
Spread charter schools (increase the number of high quality charter schools, attract additional federal funding, and target at-risk students).
Move the I-STEP test to the spring where it belongs.
Take the job of our top educator out of politics (change the Superintendent of Public Instruction from an elected position to one appointed by the Governor).
Enable Indiana kids to start kindergarten as early as they do in other states.
From the legislative agenda: Simplify the school funding formula and base it on explicit objective criteria, starting with equal dollars per child adjusted for those districts serving large numbers of children with special needs or disadvantages. Direct the Department of Local Government Finance to impose a 120-day moratorium on any new school bond issue. During that interval, the agency will draw up guidelines related to size, cost, and the ratio of academic to non-academic spending in school construction. We will continue to have fine facilities in Indiana, but teachers, taxpayers, and academic results come first – instruction must come before construction.
http://www.in.gov/gov/stateofstate.html
|  |
| Iowa |
| |
| Kansas |
| |
| Kentucky |
| |
| Louisiana |
| |
| Maine |
| |
| Maryland |
| |
| Massachusetts |
| |
| Michigan |
| |
| Minnesota |
| |
| Mississippi |
| |
| Missouri |
| |
| Montana |
| |
| Nebraska |
| |
| Nevada |
| |
| New Hampshire |
| |
| New Jersey |
| |
| New Mexico |
| |
| New York |
| |
| North Carolina |
| |
| North Dakota |
| |
| Ohio |
| |
| Oklahoma |
| |
| Oregon |
| |
| Pennsylvania |
| |
| Rhode Island |
| |
| South Carolina |
| |
| South Dakota |
| |
| Tennessee |
| |
| Texas |
| |
| Utah |
| |
| Vermont |
| |
| Virginia |
| |
| Washington |
| |
| West Virginia |
| |
| Wisconsin |
| |
| Wyoming |
| |
|