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 Bobby Jindal's Inauguration Address 2012
PROPOSALS
Choice of schools
-- Real reform lies in providing more choices and more opportunities for parents, for families, and for children.
Finance
-- The key to reforming education here in Louisiana is not massive spending and tax increases ... Throwing more money at the problem has proven to be a failure. That experiment has been tried for decades, and it has failed.
State policymaking
-- I believe we all need to check our party affiliations, our ideologies, and our political agendas at the door when it comes to improving our schools.
-- Reforming and improving education should not be a partisan issue. Getting our kids ready to face the challenges this world has to offer, getting them prepared to succeed and triumph should not be a political matter.
Teaching Quality (See link to reform plan for more details)
-- Every kid does have a right to a quality education from an excellent teacher. And by getting a good education, kids then do have the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
I could go on boasting about all the progress the people of Louisiana have made over these past four years… But I won't…and here's why…All of that was yesterday
We will not stand still or rest on our laurels. We can either go forward or backward…those are the only two options. Standing still IS going backwards.
Full text of Inauguration Address: http://www.gov.state.la.us/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&catID=3&articleID=3187
Link to Governor Jindal's reform plan Fact Sheet (released 1/17/2012): http://www.gov.state.la.us/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&catID=2&articleID=3198&navID=12 |  |
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