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 Mark Sanford's State of the State Address
School Districts, Teacher Recruitment
Raise the minimum school district size to 2,500 students. In many parts of rural South Carolina, the school district lines go back the 1950s, with the black school district and the white school district. But in those very same parts of South Carolina do you know how much chance there is of changing those districts? About zero.
Proposed in our budget to require teachers who receive National Board Certification and the $7,500 raise with it to teach in critical need areas or subjects, and yet I have my doubts either one of those ideas will make it through the political process.
Choice, Free Market Enterprise
Proposing the notion of educational freedom. In every state that offered more choices to parents, performance went up. Greater latitude to teachers and principals also seemed to yield better results.
Intent of our SMART funding bill and the backpacking proposal included in our executive budget – to give local principals and local teachers more discretion on how they spend the money. Adopting choice in Milwaukee or South Carolina is fundamentally a question about whether you believe in the free market enterprise system. In the history of man, I don't know of a product that has not been made better when subjected to the forces of competition.
Budget proposes adding another $100 million dollars to K-12, and all told, the BEA estimates that education funding in our state will top $9,800 dollars per student in the 2005 budget,
http://www.scgovernor.com/interior.asp?SiteContentId=68&NavId=284&ParentId=74
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