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 Bill Richardson's State of the State Address
Accountability--School Improvement
-- For those schools identified as needing improvement, we won't give a bad grade and walk away. Instead, we are going try to help these schools. We are going to apply new academic approaches. We are going to provide new incentives for success. And we are going to boost hands-on training for teachers.
Arts Education
-- Maintain commitment to the arts so it remains a key part of every child's education.
Early Learning
-- Create Pre-K opportunities for an additional 2,000 children, which will help us close the achievement gap – before it starts.
Finance--Facilities
-- Require any new higher education buildings to meet a higher standard of energy efficiency, and current buildings to lower their energy usage through efficiency improvements.
-- Invest another 211 million dollars to improve and modernize our elementary, middle and high schools.
-- Invest 152 million to build state of the art facilities for our university and college campuses.
Health
-- Continue progress on making sure every child has a healthy breakfast, mandatory physical education -- whether they live in an urban area or the most rural setting.
Postsecondary
-- Help scientists, physicians and researchers at the University of New Mexico unlock the potential of stem cell research—and help find the cures for our world's most deadly diseases.
-- Create the first dental school in New Mexico to address our state's gaps in oral health care.
Teaching Quality
-- Spend an additional 60-million dollars to continue to increase teacher and educational employee salaries.
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