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 Martin O'Malley's State of the State Address
Career and Technical Education
-- Rededicate ourselves to reducing our drop-out rate with better career and technical programs available to high schools in every district where kids want them.
Drugs, Alcohol
-- Increase the availability of drug treatment programs, as well as community based programs like Operation Safe Kids.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Develop the science, technology and public education that it will take to combat climate change and improve energy conservation and energy efficiency and to make Maryland a leader in the development of renewable energy and green building techniques of all kinds.
-- Build a new system for educating our adults and harnessing the potential of our entire workforce. Every single person matters.
-- Provide the little bit of help and training needed by Marylanders with disabilities who are talented and hardworking and want to get into the workforce.
-- Better align the education needs of our adults with the workforce needs of our employers and bring our adult education system into the 21st Century.
Leadership
-- Find better ways to recruit great principals to our most challenged schools.
Teaching Quality
-- Do a better job of listening to our teachers in a regular systematic way, so that we are constantly improving the learning process and improving the working conditions in our classrooms that are so very essential to recruiting and retaining the highest quality teachers we possibly can for our kids.
STEM
-- Find better ways to improve outcomes in science, technology and engineering and math.
Tuition/Fees
-- Hold the line against the rising cost of college tuition.
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