The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2007 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 Ted Strickland's State of the State Address
Early Learning
Every child whose family is under 200% of the poverty level will be eligible for any early care and learning program.
Pre-Kindergarten
Expand public pre-kindergarten by increasing the number of 3- and 4-year-olds taught by 66% ($10 million).
Early Learning -- Ensuring Quality
Make funds available for professional development and training, the hiring of early childhood development specialists and interventions to promote school readiness.
Early Learning -- Family Involvement
Provide more information about early childhood choices to parents.
Finance
Increase state support for local school districts to 54% by 2009.
Finance -- Resource Efficiency
Establish a pilot program for school districts to adopt a standard fiscal reporting system, in year two implement a transparent accounting system in every district.
Finance -- Taxes/Revenues
Include full range of tax relief when calculating state's share of education spending.
Finance -- Local Foundations/Funds
Increase the amount of foundation funding by 3% per student in each of the next two years. Focus aid formulas on meeting student needs by increasing parity aid by 7%, target the money to 60% of neediest districts.
Finance -- Equity
Securitize tobacco settlement funds for $5 billion, which gives $250 million each year for the next 20 years.
Finance -- Facilities
Use $2.2 billion to meet all current commitments of the school facilities commission over the next 5 years.
Finance -- Bonds
Use $2.8 billion to forego issuing bonds currently scheduled for the next three years.
Leadership
Place more responsibility with school principals as instructional leaers.
Teaching Quality -- Professional Development
Give teachers more professional development and mentoring opportunities.
Assessments
Use achievement and proficiency test to improve student learning and not simply label students and districts.
Charter Schools
Place a moratorium on new charter schools and prohibit non-profit management companies from running charter schools. Closely monitor all charter schools and measure their success in meeting educational and fiscal standards of accountability.
Vouchers
Eliminate the Ed Choice Voucher program and retain only the means-tested Voucher intiative in Cleveland.
Career/Technical Education
Use existing federal funds to develop a grant program to encourage job training and job creation for young people in low income communities; participating employers will receive funds to support training and wages for young employees.
Financial Aid
Limit the Student Choice Grant for students attending private colleges to those with financial need. Eliminate financial aid for students in propriety for-profit schools not in the Board of Regents system.
Completion
Increase the number of college graduates by 230,000 over 10 years and increase the graduation rate by 20% over 10 years.
Postsecondary
Create a cabinet-level Chancellor of Higher Education and establish a higher education compact between the state and public colleges and universities and ensure that each college and university must demonstrate increased operational efficiency.
Tuition/Fees
Through the higher education compact, increase funding for basic instructional subsidy by 5% in year one and 2% more in year two, to ensure no tuition increase next year and that tuition will not increase more than 3% the following year.
Access
Continue full implementation of the Ohio College Opportunity Grant for all public and private colleges in the board of regents systems, providing assistance for families with incomes up to $75,000 a year, helping 100, 000 students pay for college. Partner with Ohio College Access Network and the business community to raise private funds to close the remaining gap between student resources and the cost of college. | |
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