The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2008 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 Chet Culver's State of the State Address
Early Learning
-- Expand early childhood education so we can meet our goal of offering it statewide by 2010.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Create a $5 million dollar science, technology, engineering, and math – or STEM – Center at the University of Northern Iowa. This will help us double the number of math and science teachers in our public schools and make sure every high school graduate is ready for the jobs of the future.
Financial Aid
-- Expand the needs-based All-Iowa Opportunity Scholarship.
Health
-- Establish a minimum standard for physical activity in our schools.
-- Partner with the American Diabetes Association and other groups to create a statewide focus on wellness for our children.
-- Take the steps necessary to replace unhealthy food choices in our schools. We need statewide effort to promote healthier school meals, and better options when it comes to vending
machines.
-- Meet the obligation we have to the most vulnerable among us, our uninsured children. Expand health care to 7,500 more kids.
Postsecondary
-- Maintain the funding levels for community colleges, regents' institutions and private colleges.
-- Fully fund our successful community college level workforce training program, known as ACE.
Standards/Curriculum
-- Raise the bar and expect more from our students in the classroom. Do whatever it takes to institute Iowa's new Model Core Curriculum statewide by 2010. Our goal is simple, to teach our kids to "love to learn", to love to learn more chemistry, more physics, more algebra, and more trigonometry.
-- Make sure that all Iowa students receive the same educational opportunities, regardless of geography, family income, or school district.
Teacher Compensation
-- Pay our teachers what they deserve, and do whatever it takes to bring them to the national average in teacher pay.
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