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| Governor Rick Scott's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Charter Schools
- Increase the number of charter schools.
Choice of Schools
- Expand the eligibility for opportunity scholarships to harness the power of engaged parents.
Finance
- Analyze how much education money is spent in the classroom versus the amount spent on administration for capital outlays.
Student Achievement
- Base all education decisions on individual student learning.
- Adopt practices to improve student learning and abolish practices that impair student learning.
Teacher Employment
- Pay the best educators more and end the practice of guaranteeing educators a job for life regardless of their performance.
Teaching and Administrative Quality
- Recruit, train, support and promote great teachers, principals and superintendents.
Testing/ Teacher Evaluation
- Test students and evaluate teachers with measurements that are fair and thoughtful, and that have rewards and consequences.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
N/A - Newly-Elected Governor
http://www.flgov.com/2011/03/08/florida-governor-rick-scott-delivers-state-of-the-state-address/ |  |
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