The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2011 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 Robert Bentley's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Teacher Compensation/Benefits
-- Ask teachers to contribute more to their individual retirement and to health care insurance programs.
-- Repeal the DROP Program which has overly taxed our retirement system.
State Funding
-- Don't reduce state-funded teacher units.
-- Don't cut classroom sizes.
-- Don't cut the length of the school year or contract days for teachers or support personnel.
-- Devote $5 million dollars in the education budget specifically for classroom teaching supplies.
-- Protect: Alabama Reading Initiative; Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative; and ACCESS Distance Learning.
Advanced Placement
-- Expand our programs that prepare students for college by increasing the number of AP teachers in our high schools.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Strengthen our work force training programs in our two-year college system.
Local Decisionmaking
-- Give flexibility to local school boards to prioritize and make decisions that affect the schools in their districts.
-- Remove restrictive language from legislation that dictates decisions made by these schools board and give them additional funding and flexibility so they can put the money to highest and best use.
Postsecondary Finance
-- Increase state funding for higher education and give our presidents more flexibility in their budgets.
Special Education
-- Provide significant increases in state funding for disabled and special needs children and adults.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
-- N/A: Newly Elected Governor
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