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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| Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Accountability
-- Improve accountability report cards.
Choice of Schools
-- Use open enrollment, better charter school options, and vouchers to make private school education a possibility for more families and provide more parental choice.
Governance
-- Reform K-12 governance. Support the recommendations of Nevada's Promise to provide an improved governance model in which the governor appoints the state board of education and the superintendent of public instruction.
Teaching Quality
-- End teacher tenure. An important first step is to eliminate the protection of seniority when decisions about force reductions must be made.
-- Rely heavily on student achievement data in evaluating teachers and principals. As incentives, provide $20 million in performance pay for the most effective teachers.
-- Eliminate costly programs that reward longevity and advanced degree attainment.
Student Promotion
-- End social promotion. Students who cannot read by the end of third grade will not be advanced to the fourth grade.
Economic Development
-- Redesign the Commission on Economic Development and recommend a 50 percent increase in General Fund dollars to run it.
-- Create a new entity, Nevada Jobs Unlimited, as a public-private partnership existing largely outside state government. With a private sector mentality, it will be more nimble. And it will be a Cabinet-level agency, with the governor joining the lieutenant governor, Senate majority leader, Assembly speaker, and representatives of higher education and other critical stakeholders on the board. A majority of the board members will come from the private sector to ensure the focus is squarely on jobs.
-- Develop a more strategic focus that connects degree programs and the state's economic development efforts.
Finance
-- Reduce Basic Support in our K-12 schools by $270 per pupil. The change in total support from current spending is just over nine percent.
-- Create a Block Grant Program that encourages districts to be innovative and results-oriented. If one district chooses to continue class size reduction, so be it. If another district wants to pursue other programs, we will no longer hold them back. Flexibility, local autonomy, and accountability are the keys.
-- Change the level of reserves required for debt service in all those counties with bond funds. School improvements, maintenance, and equipment purchases will continue – which means no construction jobs will be lost. Simply put, these tax dollars were unnecessarily locked away in one of those separate buckets.
-- Use $425 million of these funds to offset the $440 million in lost local funding. The money will stay in education and be used in the district of origin. Replenish these funds over time as the Local School Support Tax rebounds.
-- Make temporary use of room tax revenue now slated for teacher salaries in order to defray the costs of overall education spending. Pay-for-performance is still included in the budget, just on a different scale.
Postsecondary Finance, Tuition, Financial Aid
-- Redirect nine cents of property tax from Clark and Washoe Counties. Restrict this money to the support of universities and
community colleges in those counties, because property values rise and economic growth occurs where universities contribute to economic development.
-- Reduce state, local, and student revenue for the Nevada System of Higher Education by less than seven percent. With the loss of one-time stimulus dollars, the total reduction is 17.66 percent. However, the Regents have the option of bringing tuition and fees more in line with other Western States, so many of these funds can be recovered.
-- Grant autonomy over tuition to the Regents. Nevada's tuition rates are well below our Western neighbors – the Regents have long asked for the authority to raise them. Reserve 15 percent of any increased tuition to ensure access for those who need financial aid. As we increase autonomy, we will also increase performance indicators so that graduation rates, completion times, and access are measures of success.
-- Budget an additional $10 million to preserve the Kenny C. Guinn Millennium Scholarship.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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