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 Steve Beshear's 2011 State of the Commonwealth Speech
PROPOSALS
Compulsory School Attendance
-- Raise the mandatory school attendance age to 18.
High School Graduation
-- Work together to increase the graduation rate
School Finance
-- Use Medicaid money to fix a Medicaid problem — don't cut education or other priorities to fix this program.
Alternative Education
-- Answer concerns about unmotivated students by creating alternative programs.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
School Finance
-- Protected basic funding for classroom teaching
College Completion
-- Smoothed the transfer of credits from two-year colleges to four-year institutions.
Improved Achievement
-- In Education Week's 2011 Quality Counts report Kentucky ranked 19th among the 50 states.
-- On the most recent NAEP, Kentucky's 4th and 8th graders outperformed the national average in science.
-- In reading, Kentucky was the only state to improve both 4th and 8th grade scores between 2007 and 2009.
-- A growing number of Kentucky students are entering college, fewer need remedial help and more are graduating.
http://www.governor.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/B88ACAA4-3F4E-461E-B514-477D507E1C72/0/20110201SOTC.pdf |  |
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