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 Chris Christie's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Accountability
-- Reform poor-performing schools or close them.
Economic Growth, Postsecondary
-- Acknowledge that our system of colleges and universities is essential to our economic growth.
Finance
-- Continue to examine the amount and structure of municipal and school aid programs.
-- Cut out-of-classroom costs and focus efforts on teachers and children.
Leadership
-- Empower principals.
School Choice
-- Expand the charter school program beyond the 6 approved this year and the 73 currently operating; this is a top priority.
-- Attract the best charter school operators to the state.
-- Increase authorizing capacity so charter school operators may start schools here.
-- Implement the interdistrict school choice law passed last year.
-- Pass the Opportunity Scholarship Act (gives businesses tax credits for funding scholarships for low-income students to attend private schools) to help children in failing schools.
Teacher Compensation--Pension and Benefits
-- Reform pension and health benefit systems for teachers; the state must begin to make its pension contributions.
-- Raise (modestly) the retirement age.
-- Curb the effect of COLAs
-- Ensure a modest but acceptable contribution from employees toward their own retirement system.
Teacher Evaluation
-- Improve the measurement and evaluation of teachers; there is a task force of teachers, principals and administrators working on that now.
Teacher Non-Renewal, Tenure
-- Demand that when teacher layoffs occur, they be based on a merit system and not merely on seniority.
-- Empower schools to remove underperforming teachers.
-- Eliminate teacher tenure.
Teacher Pay-for-Performance
-- Reward the best teacher based on merit at the individual teacher level.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
School Choice
-- Created a permanent interdistrict public school choice program.
-- Approved 6 new charter schools, with many more to come soon.
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