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 Bev Perdue's State of the State Address
Access, Financial Aid, Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Begin the College Promise program to remove financial barriers for access to higher education.
Access, Distance Learning/Virtual University, High School, Teaching Quality, Technology, Technology--Access/Equity
-- Use technology to modernize the classroom and enable teaching to catch up with the way our kids live.
-- Continue to support North Carolina's Virtual Public High School--levels the education playing field for students and assures educational equity.
Accountability, Business Involvement, High School, High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates, Parent/Family, Persistence/Retention, Public Involvement, School, Students, Student Achievement, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes
-- Hold schools accountable.
-- Will not give any child permission to drop out of school.
-- Will not give any teacher permission to give up on a student.
-- Will not give any parent a free pass from their responsibility to be fully involved in their child's education.
-- Will not give any segment of our community, particularly our business community, a free pass on education. These leaders need to put the same effort into helping North Carolina be the home of the nation's best educated workforce.
Accountability, Governance, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Reorganized (earlier this year) the public school system with Bill Harrison becoming both the CEO of the State Board of Education and of the Department of Public Instruction.
Adult Learning/Continuing Education, Economic/Workforce Development
-- Create jobs and provide ways for those who are out of work to learn new skills.
-- Put people back to work building bridges, paving roads, and expanding and renovating our infrastructure.
-- Transform our traditional industries into 21st century jobs.
Adult Learning/Continuing Education, Economic/Workforce Development
-- Create jobs and provide ways for those who are out of work to learn new skills.
-- Put people back to work building bridges, paving roads, and expanding and renovating our infrastructure.
-- Transform our traditional industries into 21st century jobs.
Assessment, Standards--State
-- Eliminating duplicative or unnecessary state tests.
Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development, Postsecondary
-- Become a Mecca for biotech, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences by bringing together government, higher education and private business.
Career/Technical Education, Community Colleges, Early Learning, P-16, Postsecondary, Pre-Kindergarten,
-- Create a pathway, starting in pre-kindergarten that offers courses of study that fit students' needs -- all the way through vocational, community college, or college. Seamless learning, pre-K through 20, that's the goal.
Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Ensure the recovery dollars are spent with maximum efficiency, transparency, and accountability.
-- Created the Office of Economic Recovery & Investment to track every dollar. Taxpayers can go to www.NCRecovery.gov to see how the money is spent.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Pay our state's bills.
-- Confront the $3 billion plus shortfall and make hard, painful decisions to balance the budget.
-- Propose to reduce and cut state government programs and services that are effective but which we cannot afford.
Finance, Finance--Funding Formulas, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Will not sacrifice education--it is the priority.
-- Increase per-pupil spending.
Health, Persistence/Retention
-- Keep all our kids healthy and in school.
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