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.
To view these BY ISSUE, click here.
 |
|
|
 | Alabama |
| |
| Alaska |
| |
| Arizona |
| |
| California |
| |
| Colorado |
| |
| Connecticut |
| |
| Delaware |
| |
| Florida |
| |
| Georgia |
| |
| Hawaii |
| |
| Idaho |
| |
| Illinois |
| |
| Indiana |
| |
| Iowa |
| |
| Kansas |
| |
| Kentucky |
| |
| Maine |
| |
| Maryland |
| |
| Massachusetts |
| |
 | Michigan |
| |
| Governor Jennifer Granholm's State of the State Address
Focus on four things: 1) A job for every worker. 2) Affordable health care for every family. 3) Safe places to live and work for all of us. 4) Quality education for our citizens - kids and adults.
Accountability
-- Give our state superintendent broader authority to close schools that consistently fail to meet academic goals.
-- Reward colleges and universities when their students complete degrees. Also reward them when they create opportunity for low-income students, and when they find ways to turn research ideas into businesses. Invest more in higher education and expect more in return.
Early Learning
Significantly expand early childhood education.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Create Centers of Excellence across the state to bring alternative energy companies and Michigan universities together to create new products and new jobs.
-- Double the number of college graduates to give Michigan the best-educated workforce in the nation. To reach that goal, make progress throughout our education system, from preschool to grad school to on-the-job training.
-- Invest more in training for adults already in the workforce. This past year, we took a giant step forward in workforce training when we launched the No Worker Left Behind initiative. Our goal is to give 100,000 workers displaced by changes in our economy access to college education and other training that prepares them for specific high demand jobs. We're offering free tuition for training in areas of need to the first 100,000 workers who sign up. Unfortunately, the huge demand for No Worker Left Behind will soon exhaust the federal funds used to pay for this program. That means Michigan residents who want new skills are on waiting lists when they could be on payrolls. The budget I propose next week will ensure that the thousands who need training are able to get it this year.
Finance
-- Increase our investment in our K-12 schools and significantly expand early childhood education.
Financial Aid
-- Expand the vision of the Kalamazoo Promise to communities across our state. (In Kalamazoo, anonymous donors promised full college tuition for every high school graduate.)
Tutoring/Mentoring
-- Recruiting 10,000 more mentors for kids.
High School
-- Establish a 21st Century Schools Fund to replace large impersonal high schools that fail, with smaller schools that use firm discipline and strong personal relationships to help students reach high expectations. Free from red tape and bureaucracy, these schools will deploy the new three Rs - rigor, relevance and relationships - to keep students in high school and then get them to college or technical training. Our 21st Century Schools Fund will give school districts the resources they need to create high schools that work. A pioneering group of schools in Michigan is showing us today there is a better way.
-- Create 100 more early college high schools to help ensure every student in Michigan leaves high school with the skills it takes to succeed in college and the work place.
In the past year, we created six early college high schools, which each partner with a major hospital in our state and a college or university.
-- Raise the dropout age to 18.
Kindergarten
-- Ask all of our school districts to begin offering full day kindergarten.
http://www.michigan.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168--184537--,00.html | |
| Minnesota |
| |
| Mississippi |
| |
| Missouri |
| |
| Nebraska |
| |
| New Hampshire |
| |
| New Jersey |
| |
| New Mexico |
| |
| New York |
| |
| Ohio |
| |
| Oklahoma |
| |
| Pennsylvania |
| |
| Rhode Island |
| |
| South Carolina |
| |
| South Dakota |
| |
| Tennessee |
| |
| Utah |
| |
| Vermont |
| |
| Virginia |
| |
| Washington |
| |
| West Virginia |
| |
| Wisconsin |
| |
| Wyoming |
| |
|