ECS
2011 State of the State Addresses
Education-Related Proposals

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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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Govenor Andrew M. Cuomo's State of the State Address

PROPOSALS

Economic Development, Postsecondary
- Establish 10 economic regional councils across the state. Higher education will be the key economic driver.

Finance, Student Achievement
- Acknowledge that NY spends more money on education than any other state but is number 34th in the nation in terms of results.
- Redesign portion of state education funding to create two competitive funds that reward performance: (1) school performance: $250 million competition fund for district that increase classroom performance (e.g., improving grades of historically underperforming children) and (2) administration efficiency: $250 million competition for districts that find administrative savings through efficiencies, shared services, etc.

Governance
- Create program to reward local governments that save money by consolidating.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

N/A: Newly-Elected Governor

http://governor.ny.gov/sl2/stateofthestate2011transcript
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