ECS
2011 State of the State Addresses
Education-Related Proposals

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Governor Mark Dayton's 2011 State of the State Address

PROPOSALS

Finance
-- Increase state funding for public K-12 education every year, with every additional dollar directed toward improving the quality of that education.

Early Learning
-- Re-establish the Governor's Council on Early Childhood Education and the Children's Cabinet, both to be led by Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius.
-- Increase funding to expand the number of children who can receive all-day kindergarten.

Postsecondary Effectiveness
-- Identify successes in colleges and universities that are educating students most successfully. Share these strategies and encourage and require their use elsewhere.

Business Involvement
-- Ask every business in Minnesota to adopt a school, college or university: to become actively involved in making them better.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
N/A - Newly-elected Governor

http://mn.gov/governor/newsroom/pressreleasedetail.jsp?id=9690
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