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 Mary Fallin's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Electronic Textbooks
-- Move toward electronic textbooks where appropriate.
Finance
-- Restructure state spending and educational programs in order to get more money into the classroom. That will require cutting down on overhead and educational bureaucracy by sharing administrative resources.
Health
-- Support the Certified Healthy Schools program and other state healthy living initiatives.
Pension Reform
-- Reform the pension system.
Public-private Partnerships
-- Work with the state superintendent to find available funds for a new public-private partnership where private money matches state dollars to fund innovative learning programs that are shown to increase student performance and close the achievement gap.
Social Promotion
-- Work with state superintendent to eliminate social promotion.
Student Remediation
-- Reduce remediation rates and develop better and more accurate systems to track student progress to know what is working and what is not.
Teacher Dismissal
-- Eliminate "trial de novo" a system that makes it nearly impossible to dismiss even the most underperforming teachers.
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