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 Haley Barbour's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
School Choice/Options
-- Make dual enrollment easier and more common.
-- Reform charter school law so more children can benefit.
Resource Allocation
-- Put more resources into the classroom and reduce what is spent on administration.
Teaching Quality
-- Focus on improving the quality of teachers coming out of our colleges of education, while simultaneously using technology more in teaching our kids.
District Finance
-- Adopt budget recommendation for 2012 and school districts will have more than $450 million in their reserve funds.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Student Achievement
-- The last NAEP scores were up more than the national average, and the dropout rate is going down.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Created the Department of Employment Security and expanded it to take over workforce development and job training.
-- Established the State Workforce Investment Board and the Workforce Enhancement Training (WET) fund, which annually puts $20 million into workforce development and skills training at 15 community colleges. Graduates of WET-fund financed programs make $4,300 more per year than before training.
-- Research universities have become more effective engines of economic growth.
-- Improved, skilled workforce has been a reason companies have come to Mississippi.
http://www.governorbarbour.com/news/2011/jan/1.11.11%20Gov.%20Barbour%27s%20State%20of%20the%20State%20Address%20TEXT.pdf |  |
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