The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2009 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
Accountability, Accountability--Rewards, Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions, School Districts, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Student Achievement
-- Encourage more school systems to enter into an IE2 contract with the State Board of Education. Under this contract, the state holds the system accountable for increased student achievement above and beyond state and federal requirements, in exchange for local control/flexibility; the system will face serious consequences if they fail to meet the goals.
Assessment, Finance--Performance Funding, Governance, High School, High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates, Leadership, Student Achievement
-- Propose legislation to establish a high school principal incentive pay program for principals who increase student achievement – raising graduation rates and improving SAT and End of Course Test scores.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--Bonds, Postsecondary
-- Introduce a bond package, totaling over $1.2 billion in new investment, to create an estimated 20,000 new jobs and build infrastructure. This package will feature many projects in which both design and construction are funded in the same year, in an effort to ensure their timely completion. The projects will be state-wide and include new construction at our universities, technical schools, local school systems and libraries.
Finance, Finance--District, School Districts
-- Relax expenditure controls on local school systems to allow them more flexibility.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Recommend using a one-time strategy to help balance this year's budget--use the maximum amount available for appropriation from the reserves, appropriating $50 million this year and $408 million next year, as well as $187 million for the midyear education adjustment.
Finance--Performance Funding, Student Achievement, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Propose merit pay legislation to award teachers who show evidence that their classroom instruction leads to increased student achievement.
Governance, Leadership, School Boards
-- Propose legislation to clearly define what citizens expect from school board members and give the state the ability to replace board members with responsible, local citizens when accreditation is threatened.
Mathematics, Science, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Differentiate pay for math and science teachers--introduce a market dynamic into the salary schedule to address these areas.
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