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 Tim Pawlenty's State of the State Address
Charter Schools, Finance, Finance--Funding Formulas, Finance--Performance Funding, School Districts, Student Achievement, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Expand the Q Comp program (gives school districts more funding if they pay staff for improvements in student learning, rather than just paying for seniority) to every school district and charter school. For school districts not currently in Q Comp, this proposal will permanently increase per pupil funding by an amount comparable to a 5 percent increase in the general education funding formula.
Charter Schools, Governance, Leadership, School Districts
-- Improve the management of our schools.
-- Require school districts and charter schools to come together to purchase in bulk to lower costs, eliminate waste and put more money in the classroom.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Propose a Minnesota Jobs Recovery Act.
-- Cut the state's business tax rate in half (from 9.8 percent to 4.8 percent) over the next 6 years.
-- Provide a 50 million dollar package of tax credits that to create over 100 million dollars in new investments and jump start small business job creation.
-- Propose a 25 percent refundable tax credit for small business owners that re-invest in their business quickly.
-- Provide a capital gains exemption for qualifying investments in small Minnesota businesses.
-- Eliminate the sales tax rebate on equipment and provide a 100 percent exemption from the sales tax – applies when the business buys the equipment.
-- Enact a green jobs initiative.
-- Create green JOBZ tax free zones for renewable energy jobs created anywhere in the state.
Finance, Finance--Funding Formulas, Finance--Performance Funding, School Districts, Student Achievement
-- Increase school district funding by up to an additional 2 percent per student for students meeting standards or at least showing reasonable growth towards achievement.
Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Ask each member of the legislature: Please don't add to the people's burden by increasing their bill from government; please don't take more of the people's money; and please don't raise taxes.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Continue to reform and improve our K-12 education system--one of our highest priorities.
-- Plan to propose a budget in a couple of weeks that will rely on significant reductions in state spending, as well as using other resources currently available.
-- Reduce funding for cities and counties.
-- Reduce or eliminate as many state mandates as possible. Allow townships, cities or counties to opt-out of some state mandates by vote of their governing body.
-- Freeze all state government wages for the next two years in order to minimize government employee layoffs.
-- Enact legislation to require a wage freeze for any Minnesota government entity that accepts state money.
-- Require local units of government to use the leverage of the state's buying power to purchase commodities such as road salt, paper and IT services at a reduced price, unless they can find a better price themselves.
Governance, Leadership, School Districts, Unions/Collective Bargaining
-- Change the way school districts and teacher unions negotiate and settle labor contracts. Begin using a fair arbitration process.
High School, High School--Grad Requirements, Technology, Technology--Instruction
-- Propose that state high school graduation standards require every student to participate in an online experience by the time they graduate.
Postsecondary, Distance Learning/Virtual University
-- Ask state colleges and universities to aggressively deliver more of their courses online. I'm grateful that MnSCU's board and leadership accepted my recent challenge to deliver 25 percent of their credits online by 2015.
Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Impose a firm cap on tuition increases.
Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Compensation, Teaching Quality--Preparation, Teaching Quality--Recruitment/Retention
-- Recruit the best and the brightest to become teachers.
-- Establish minimum entrance requirements for teacher preparation programs.
-- Continue to improve and modernize the way we pay teachers.
http://www.governor.state.mn.us/stellent/groups/public/documents/web_content/prod009309.pdf | |
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