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 Mike Easley's State of the State Address
High School
The Learn and Earn project was funded as a pilot but needs to be funded statewide over four years. (Learn and Earn provides the opportunity for students to receive a two- year college degree with just one extra year of school.)
With help from the Gates Foundation, we are building smaller schools within a school, so the students know the teachers and the teachers know the students. These schools will focus on areas such as health sciences, biotechnology, and information technology, the very
fields that have the most growth potential. And the students will work in these sectors as part of their education.
Finance
Budget will fully fund the low-wealth formula over two years, an increase of over 50 percent, to see that all children receive the same opportunities as the rest of North Carolina, not because it is law, but because it is right and just and fair. But let this much be clear, when we offer opportunity, we will demand real accountability. I want to pull this money together under one formula with one set of requirements and a lot of accountability. That is the only way to find out what works and what does not. Then we can invest in a proven strategy that helps all children meet high standards and reach their full potential.
Although the budget will not include an education lottery, lottery funding is an issue. "I have said an education lottery should pay for these items. This lottery issue is not going away. Only the money for the education lottery is going away, from our state to other states every single day. Since I delivered my first state of the state address, hundreds of millions of North Carolina dollars have gone to education in South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee. Our people are playing the lottery. We just need to decide which schools we should fund, other states or ours."
We must abide by a reasonable spending cap.
Teacher Preparation, Community Colleges
Bring together our community colleges with our universities to educate teachers in the communities where they are needed most. All of our university campuses will begin programs with community colleges in every corner of this state so that teachers can get their degree from a licensed university in their community and children can get the teachers they need in their schools. This plan will increase the number of new teachers by 64 percent each year.
Integrated Services
We must address the whole child. We need social service and school staff working together in our schools to connect students and their families to the help they need. The services are already available in every county. We just have to connect them with the schools.
Parent Involvement
We cannot educate a child without the help and cooperation of parents. There is a child neglect statute on the books in this state. For
those parents who intentionally interfere with their child's education, we will use that law to protect that child's right.
Financial Aid
Washington just cut aid to over 15,000 North Carolina students. In this knowledge-based economy, we will have to provide the funds. So our message to these students is simple: stay in school and study hard. Washington may leave you on the curb, but North Carolina will not. Our budget will fund what Washington shamefully cut.
Tuition/Fees
Tuition cannot go up every single year, and it will not go up in my budget.
Community College
-- Invest in equipment for training at the community college level.
-- Budget will continue the progress to get community college pay up to the national average.
Health
The time has come to significantly increase the cigarette tax and reduce teen smoking.
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