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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| Governo Tim Pawlenty's State of the State Address
Proposals:
· QComp -- Performance Pay for Quality Teaching
· More Funding for Schools
· Get Ready, Get Credit -- college credits while in 12th grade
Performance Pay for Quality Teaching details:
Multiple Career Paths -- Recognize teacher excellence by creating master and mentor teaching positions to encourage gifted teachers to remain in the classroom and share their skills with others.
Rigorous Evaluation and Review System -- Set specific performance and accountability goals for every teacher. A review team consisting of the principal and peers will evaluate performance based upon achievement of the goals, including improvement of student learning.
Performance Pay -- Ties enhanced compensation to growth in student achievement, rather than seniority. The plan requires participating districts to abolish outdated, lockstep "steps and lanes" compensation systems. Allows districts to pay more to teachers in high-need schools and hard to staff subject areas.
Professional Development Aligned to Actual School and Student Needs -- Requires staff development to be customized and focused on identified needs of students such as skill development in reading strategies, fine-tuning methods to better align curriculum with learning standards, intervention with struggling children and use of state and local assessment data.
Fiscal proposal:
Allow average general fund revenue per student to increase by 5.4 percent over the next two years -- covering inflation, but also providing additional money local districts can use to lower class sizes and improve their current programs.
Average statewide general fund revenue per student will go from the scheduled $8361 to $8520 for FY 2006 and from the scheduled $8500 to $9063 for FY 2007.
Districts that also take advantage of the QComp plan could experience increases of up to 8 percent over the last biennium.
Proposing a 2 percent increase on the general education formula in each of the next two years, amounting to $122 per student in FY 2006 and $248 per student in FY 2007. Proposal would also allow local school boards to increase local option levies for the local portion of teacher performance pay, special education, deferred maintenance and a discretionary levy which replaces several existing local option levies and provides additional flexibility. These levies are partially equalized, capped and subject to a new reverse referendum process. Also proposing to increase the current cap on voter-approved local levies from 18 percent of the general education formula amount to 28 percent.
Get Ready, Get Set Proposal details
Assess college preparedness earlier and better by providing funding so that students in grades 8 and 10 can take the ACT "EPAS" assessment at no charge. EPAS determines preparedness for college and areas in which students need to devote further study and effort.
Reinstate the stipend to teachers of Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate programs based on numbers of students passing AP/IB examinations, and making changes in program administration.
http://www.governor.state.mn.us/documents/2005StateoftheState.pdf
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