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 Haley Barbour's State of the State Address
Early Learning
-- Better utilize the existing early childhood programs that already serve 80% of our four-year-olds…by providing financial incentives for them to expand and improve their educational content.
Finance
-- Pass an honest balanced budget that recognizes we won't be able to increase K-12 spending nearly that much this session (last several years saw an average increase of $130 million per year for K-12 schools).
-- Cannot afford continued, large increases in funding higher education this year.
-- Fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program.
-- Fund education reforms so we can get better results for the money we spend. Find ways to be more efficient and save money.
High School
-- Continue to support the state superintendent's proposal to redesign high school, to make it more rigorous and especially more relevant to kids who are not on a path to college, as a way to attack our unacceptably high dropout rate.
Reading
-- Fund the screening of every first grader for dyslexia and other learning disabilities and get them treatment.
Teaching Quality
-- Compensation: Increase the salaries of teachers with more than 25 years experience.
-- Fund mentoring/induction: Give beginning teachers more support as they learn to manage a classroom full of kids. Pay each mentor an extra $1000 for this valuable service.
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