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| Governor Mitch Daniels' State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- End practices like raiding teacher pension funds, and shifting state deficits to our schools and universities by making them wait until the state had the cash to pay them.
Teaching Quality
-- Should have tenure, but they should earn it by proving their ability to help kids learn.
-- Best teachers should be paid more, much more, and ineffective teachers should be helped to improve or asked to move.
Leadership
-- Give school leadership full flexibility to deliver the results we now expect.
-- Free school leaders from all the handcuffs that reduce their ability to meet the higher expectations we now have for student achievement.
Local Control
-- Repeal mandates that, whatever their good intentions, ought to be left to local control.
School Choice/Charter School
-- Honor, trust and respect parents enough to decide when, where and how their children can receive the best education, and therefore the best chance in life.
-- Protect families against any possibility of discrimination by requiring that any school with more applicants than room fill it through a lottery or other blind selection process.
-- Create more charter schools, and they must no longer be unjustly penalized. They should receive their funding exactly when other public schools do. If they need space, and the local district owns vacant buildings it has no prospect of using, they should turn them over.
-- Let families apply dollars that the state spends on their child to the non-government school of their choice.
Accelerated Learning
-- Empower kids to defray the high cost of education through their own hard work, by entrusting them with this new and innovative choice. If you choose to finish in eleven years instead of twelve, we will give you the money we were going to spend while you cruised through 12fth grade, as long as you spend that money on some form of further education.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
-- Ordered the Board of Education to peel away unnecessary requirements that consume time and money without really contributing to learning.
-- Starting this year, schools will get their own grades, in a form we can all understand: 'A' to 'F.' No more hiding behind jargon and gibberish.
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