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 Jack Markell's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
AP Courses, Assessment Systems, Federal Aid, Incentive Pay for Teachers, Teacher Evaluation
-- Make the state's Race to the Top competition plan a reality by: (1) Implementing a better assessment system, measuring student growth during the year and providing real-time feedback so teacher can adjust and improve student learning on-the-spot; (2) Measuring student growth in every subject area so we can link teacher evaluations with how much their students learning in their classroom, identify what works, and raise the quality of instruction across the state; (3) Give teachers more time to collaborate with their colleagues and work with data coaches in interpreting student data and developing strategies to address identified needs; (4) Meet parents' requests for more Advanced Placement courses; and (5) Provide incentive pay to attract highly effective teachers to high-needs schools.
Common Core Standards
-- Assess more accurately how proficient our students are at meeting the new common core standards.
Early Learning
-- Increase the focus on early learning within state government, improving assessment and the use of data, and better coordinating and integrating funding.
Foreign Languages, Online Courses
-- Offer high-quality online Chinese language courses developed with federal grant funding.
STEM
-- Fund a new STEM Teacher Residency Program to attract individuals with experience in the STEM areas to the teaching profession.
-- Bring to the classrooms a former senior scientist with Astra-Zeneca and a Master's-level physicist with prior experience at NASA.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Common Core Standards
-- Adopted new, clearer and higher "common core standards."
Federal Aid
-- Won the national Race to the Top competition.
Foreign Languages
-- Required completion of a world language in order to graduate.
-- Offered Chinese language courses to students at virtually no cost to the state.
School Improvement
-- Launched the Partnership Zone effort to provide more focus on our lowest-achieving schools. Selected schools are required to implement significant and difficult changes and all four Partnership Zones have done so.
School Safety
-- Asked the Safety and Homeland Security Secretary to oversee creation of model comprehensive school safety plans for the 26 public schools with a State Police Resource Officer.
STEM
-- Created a STEM Council to ensure that schools have the high quality programs and partnerships necessary so that students gain the critical skills and knowledge needed for high-quality jobs.
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