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 Ruth Ann Minner's State of the State Address
Early Learning
-- Continue to support the efforts of the Vision 2015 group, an organization of business leaders, educators and state officials who are committed to a plan to make our schools the best in the world. In that effort, we will recommend an appropriation of $500,000 to continue to invest in early childhood education.
Distance Education
-- Make the virtual school a reality by investing more than $250,000 in that cutting-edge project.
Finance
-- Devote any cost savings through this effort to our early childhood education initiatives and other classroom programs. Cost savings were identified by the 18-member Leadership for Education Achievement in Delaware (or LEAD) Committee.)
Health
-- Get Lieutenant Governor Carney's Challenge program in every single elementary school in Delaware by this time next year.
(In Delaware schools, nurses, teachers, and principals have been innovative in creating programs to address the growing problem of childhood obesity through this program -- now in 43% of elementary schools.)
Kindergarten
-- Continue funding for full-day kindergarten, a program that helps children get additional time in the classroom as they are building the foundation for their educational success.
Budget proposal for the next fiscal year includes state funding for full-day kindergarten in 11 districts and nine charter schools
Financial Aid
-- Pass the Student Academic Reward scholarship program, or STAR. The STAR scholarship would enable high-achieving SEED graduates to continue on to a four-year, tuition-free bachelor's degree. (The SEED scholarship program offers free college tuition to any student who works hard, stays out of trouble, and gets good grades.)
Safety
-- Support the Departments of Education and Safety and Homeland Security in joining forces to protect our children. Beginning this spring, the Delaware State Police will begin offering fingerprinting and other safety-related tools to every fourth-grader in every elementary school in our state. Over time, every school-age child will participate in this program.
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