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 Mark Sanford's State of the State Address
Choice, Charter Schools
-- Give the families of modest incomes a lifeline, and a scholarship, out of a failing school.
-- Improve the grounds on which charter schools are established in our state, as too often new public charter schools are still not able to use existing educational facilities or be afforded transportation options.
Finance
-- Establish a statutory cap on new spending at population plus inflation with a requirement that all money above this cap be returned to the taxpayers or dedicated to our states unfunded pension plan.
-- Acknowledge the fact we can no longer afford the Teacher and Employee Retiree Incentive program, and the defined employee benefit option in its present form, and limit it to the people already in the system.
-- Move toward a funding system based on a per-pupil public expenditure - rather than funding districts in lump sums.
High School
-- Be open to very different approaches as we proposed in the Executive Budget, like offering a scholarship for students who graduate early from high school.
School Districts
-- Consolidate school districts - our lines are still too often tied to the 1950's - the cost of which can be measured in facilities and administrative duplication.
-- Seriously address how we build schools as our population grows. Neighborhood schools are now allowed, but to date we have not really seen them implemented.
Tuition/Fees
-- Link the price of higher education to its cost. By capping its increase we would force coordination - key to preventing higher education from continuing to spiral out of the reach of working families.
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