The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2006 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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| State of the State Address
Finance – Facilities
$90 million for school construction and repairs.
Finance
An increase of $132.5 million for public education.
Teacher Quality – Recruitment and Retention
Allow retired teachers to be hired to fill difficult classroom positions for 24 months without losing retirement benefits.
Teacher Certification
Award a $10,000 a year bonus to any of the 111 National Board Certified Teachers who agree to teach in underperforming schools for three years.
Teacher Certification
The Emergency Certified Teacher Program allows anyone holding a bachelor's degree or higher to teach in the subject in which they have degrees as along as they complete the substitute teacher training program.
Tuition Certification
$500,000 to reestablish the Hawaii Educator Loan Program for loan forgiveness of tuition at any certified teaching program.
Charter Schools
Give charter schools their own school district and remove the cap on the number of charter schools, so the state can establish seven new charter schools.
Finance – Postsecondary
$45.6 million in operating funds and $252 million for facilities for the University of Hawaii. |  |
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