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 Kenny Guinn's State of the State Address
"Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda."
Finance
Budget includes over $500 million in new funding for education to accommodate 35,000 new students. It also continues funding for textbooks, supplies, technology, teacher training, signing bonuses and retention pay.
Mandate a system of checks and balances to ensure that this funding produces results for our children. To have any impact, we must fast-track this money to provide funding before school begins each year. So I am asking that we move quickly. We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense. We must develop a system that is long on accountability and short on excuses. It must be a system that demands progress. And, if progress is not made, then we must require that leadership in these failing schools be changed.
Establish pay for performance salary incentives for the schools that are in trouble.
School Improvement
Create a 100 million dedicated fund to be directed to schools on failure and warning lists. This money will be used to address specific needs of individual schools. This investment allows for the establishment of best practices for remediation programs at schools that most clearly need this funding, and could include special programs such as all-day kindergarten, increased emphasis on literacy, the hiring of more bilingual teachers, and professional staff development. It will empower the parents, teachers, and principals who know what their children need.
Create a blue-ribbon commission -- the Governor's Commission on Excellence in Education -- to oversee the unprecedented influx of funding for public education.
Class Size
Extend the class-size flexibility program beyond rural areas into the two largest school districts. Make better use of the $260 million we spend on class-size reduction by empowering our local school boards to make the best decision on class-size flexibility.
Early Childhood, Health
Put over $6 million in new funding into early intervention services for our children who suffer from developmental delays, and an additional $13.7 million for children who are in need of mental health care.
Finance--Taxes
Create property tax relief: By working with local governments, school boards, and taxpayers, we can provide a solution that protects our home and property owners all across this state.
Financial Aid
Provide $100 million in new state bonds so the Millennium Scholarship will be available to Nevada's students for years to come.
Higher Education
The budget includes over $250 million in new spending for faculty, infrastructure and research for the current and 7,000 new students who are expected over the next two years.
Attract and develop cutting-edge programs in medical research by pledging more than $11 million to two new partnerships. One partnership is between the Nevada Cancer Institute and the University of Nevada School of Medicine to help build a Nevada Cancer Institute facility on the northern Nevada campus of the School of Medicine, providing a critical northern link to the impressive work already being done by the cancer institute in southern Nevada. The other partnership is between the Lou Ruvo Center for Alzheimer's Care and Research and our School of Medicine. Each partnership will create joint research facilities.
Economic Development
These partnerships will also bring exciting possibilities for economic development, technology transfer, and the promise of new, high-paying jobs.
Ensure that our finest young medical minds remain in our state by providing $4.5 million for the addition of 40 new positions to the residencies and fellowships program in our School of Medicine. Nevada needs them, and that's why we are going to train them.
http://nv.gov/2005.StateoftheStateSpeech.htm
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