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 Jim Doyle's State of the State Address
Early Learning
Budget will include a program that will rate the quality of child care providers -- with a five-star rating system, with higher levels of state reimbursement for providers with the highest ratings for quality. Plan will reward quality, encourage improvement, and give parents the information they need to choose the right child care center.
School Breakfast Program
Budget will increase the reimbursement rate for schools that participate in the school breakfast program by 50 percent.
Class Size Reduction
Continue to support the SAGE program, which reduces class sizes in the early grades. Proposing significant new funding for small class sizes, focusing on the early grades.
Choice
Will support some adjustments to the school choice cap as part of a larger package to help all students, whether they are in choice or public schools.
Teacher Compensation
Need to reform the way we pay our teachers - not only to attract and retain the best educators, but also to address the rising costs of health care. The Qualified Economic Offer law (QEO) lets school districts avoid arbitration if they retain the same benefit package. That creates a powerful disincentive for school districts to develop innovative solutions to reduce health care costs. The QEO is a roadblock to reform, and it must go. If we're willing to move past the old arguments on the QEO, we can design a new system that better controls rising health care costs, improves teacher retention, and encourages teachers to upgrade their skills and knowledge. It will allow local communities to make their decisions at the bargaining table rather than as mandates from Madison.
Need a new system that pays teachers not only on the length of their service, but also on their ability to help children learn.
The budget plan will offer planning grants to school districts, so they can work with teachers, school administrators, and business leaders to develop innovative ways to reward teachers for skills and knowledge that enhance student performance. The plan - which can build off Superintendent Libby Burmaster's Wisconsin Quality Educator Initiative - represents a better way of paying teachers. We'll add incentives to attract our best teachers to some of our most challenging classrooms, whether in inner cities or rural districts. We'll develop new ways to attract the math and science teachers we need. And we'll make real reforms in health care.
High School
Will propose legislation requiring a third year of math and a third year of science as graduation requirements for all Wisconsin students.
Higher Education
There's no greater investment we can make than in the University of Wisconsin. The $3.2 billion deficit I inherited forced some difficult cuts for all of state government, but particularly the University System. While we still don't have the resources we'd like, I'm committed to reversing the trend - providing more state support, adding faculty to improve quality and expand access, and increasing financial aid. The budget I will submit to you next month will add more state money to the UW and financial aid than to the corrections budget
Proposing a $750 million public and private investment in biotechnology and stem cell research, including the Institute for Discovery - which will unlock new medical cures and launch new businesses that will benefit the entire state.
Expand the deduction up to the average cost of tuition at the UW System - this year, that would be about $5,000.
Finance
Budget will fully fund shared revenue, significantly increase aid to education, and provide over a billion dollars in property tax relief through the homestead credit and the school levy credit.
Governor Doyle also highlighted the recommendations made by his bipartisan Task Force on Educational Excellence and said many of the ideas in their final report will form the basis for his education proposals in his budget.
http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/journal_media_detail.asp?prid=903
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