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| Governor Milt Romney's State of the Commonwealth Address
Proposal: The Education Reform Act of 2005. Many of the features will apply only to failing districts.
Here are a few:
1) A longer school day, with provision for special help, study hall and sports.Learning should last well into the afternoon, not end at 2 o'clock.
2) Our best teachers are underpaid. They deserve more and I want to pay them more.
3) In particular, we should pay more to attract excellent math and science teachers. Ninety-three percent of our nation's middle school science teachers didn't major or minor in science. No wonder our kids don't go into the sciences when their teachers didn't either.
4) Today, the MCAS tests math and English: I will move for science to be the third MCAS discipline and make science a graduation requirement as soon as possible.
5) We need to improve teacher training and mentoring. And we have to make it easier to remove those few teachers who consistently fail our children. I remember what it's like as a parent to see your child in a class taught by someone who just doesn't care anymore. In those rare cases when a teacher does not work in the best interests of our children's future, then that teacher should no longer have a future in the classroom.
6) We must also raise the bar for higher education, especially when it comes to training our future teachers.
7) We should lift the cap on our charter schools.
8) Mandatory parental preparation courses in failing school districts. Parental involvement in a child's education is more important than
any step we can take. Not all teachers can be parents, but all parents must be teachers.
http://www.mass.gov/Agov2/docs/SOTC_Final_2005.pdf
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