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 Sonny Perdue's State of the State Address
Early Learning
-- Allocate an additional $6.4 million in lottery funds to bring the total number of Pre-K slots up to 79,000. (The first Pre-K class enters college this fall.)
Economic Development
-- Invest $40 million for venture capital to commercialize research in areas like biosciences and medicine coming out of our universities.
Deregulation
-- Continue to link flexibility with accountability. Follow through on the work of the Investing in Educational Excellence (IE2) task force by offering new options in exchange for performance. Grant public schools some of the flexibility that charter schools enjoy through new contracts between the state and the local school systems. These contracts would require clear and measurable accountability standards, and would link flexibility with student achievement.
Finance
-- Eliminate the state portion of property tax.
-- Invest $65 million in funding two priority needs for schools – transportation (school buses) and 21st century technology.
Parent Involvement
-- Institute the "VIP Recruiter" program – Very Important Parent Recruiters. Invest $14.25 million, targeting our schools with the poorest attendance rates. Simply put, a child's attendance record is a direct result of parental involvement. These recruiters will help parents understand the education system, to help them make a connection with their child's teachers. They will learn how and why to be supportive of their child's education.
Teacher compensation
-- Continue to issue the $100 Classroom Gift Card to teachers.
http://gov.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,78006749_102386494_103230743,00.html
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