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 Dennis Daugaard's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Postsecondary Readiness and Completion
-- Ensure that every student who wants to go to college is fully prepared to enter and graduate.
Technical Education
-- Expand technical education opportunities, through partnerships with our tech schools and private businesses, so that high school students can have exposure to skilled, technical fields.
-- Sponsor a bill to increase the bonding capacity of our postsecondary tech schools, to allow them to continue to expand their campuses and add new programs in technical fields.
STEM
-- Work toward new approaches to strengthen education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Finance, Local Control
-- Allow local school boards and school administrators to run their own districts.
-- Sponsor bills to repeal the 100 student minimum for state aid to school districts and to remove the cap on school district reserve fund balances.
Encourage Careers in Health Care
-- Partner with health systems, professional organizations, educational institutions, and local governments to increase efforts to encourage students to consider careers in health care.
-- Encourage local school districts to give high school credit toward graduation for training in fields like EMT, dietetics, or nursing assistants.
-- Continue to promote the privately-funded DakotaCorps scholarship, which rewards young people who commit to staying in the state and entering health care and other high-need fields.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
N/A: Newly-Elected Governor
http://sd.gov/governor/docs/State%20of%20the%20State,%20Jan.%2011,%202011.pdf |  |
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