The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2012 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 Steve Beshear's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
P-3
--Continue restructuring preschool and day-care programs to ensure every child is mentally and physically prepared for kindergarten. Formalize the Early Childhood Advisory Council (created via executive order) through legislation.
--Find funding to increase access to high-quality early education and care programs.
Career/Technical Education and Governance
--Propose legislation to move oversight of Career Technical Education to the state department of education (currently one program is operated by local school districts, and the other by the state department of workforce investment). This will enable the state to elevate the importance of this segment of the educational system, consolidate administrative staffs and improve the consistency of the programs by uniting
them under one vision and leadership.
High School Attendance
--Urge passage, for the third year in a row, of legislation to phase in an increase in the mandatory school age from 16 to 18.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
P-3
--Created a standard definition of school readiness, one that gives both public and private programs a consistent, singular mission. Created the Early Childhood Advisory Council to implement this readiness definition.
Health
--Saw a drop in the last 10 years in the number of middle-schoolers who smoke from 22 percent to less than 9 percent.
--Improving dental care for tens of thousands of children by training more dentists in pediatric techniques and taking treatment to schools.
Economic/Workforce Development
--Next month, Kentucky will become only the 3rd state to begin identifying and certifying "work-ready communities."
Career/Technical Education, Dual/Concurrent Enrollment
--Increasing the quality of Career and Technical Education courses to integrate them more fully into the secondary education system, and give them a more rigorous academic foundation.
--Signed a dual credit agreement to allow students in high school to earn college credit for approved courses, including in career and technical education. This will speed a student's path to a certificate or degree, reduce his or her costs and keep them in school by tying class work directly to their future careers.
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