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 Scott Walker's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Accountability
-- Improve our schools and ensure that every kid - no matter what zip code they live in - has access to a great education.
-- Developing a uniquely Wisconsin school and school district accountability plan.
-- Rate every school that receives public funds – be it a traditional public school, a charter school or a choice school – by a fair, objective and transparent system.
-- Enable educators, parents and even employers to look at the scores of schools and school districts all across the state.
Reading/Literacy
-- Fund screeners to assess every child entering kindergarten so that teachers know the reading levels of each of their students and can put together plans to get kids reading at grade level.
-- Require the state's Young Star program which works with child care providers to include a new focus on reading skills and new training on early childhood education.
-- Implement a more rigorous licensure exam for elementary education programs patterned after the highly successful program in Massachusetts.
-- Create a Read to Lead development council to raise support for reading programs all across Wisconsin.
-- Ask more citizens to become a reading mentor.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Finance
-- Balanced the $3.6 billion budget deficit with long-term, structural reforms.
-- Decreased the school property tax levy for the first time in six years. The total school tax levy actually went down by more than $47 million.
-- Allowed school districts to bid out their health insurance. That is saving school districts millions of dollars across the state.
Teaching Quality and Compensation
-- Allowed local school districts to staff based on merit and pay based on performance.
-- Empowered local officials who were elected at the local level to make the decisions about their schools.
Reading/Literacy
-- Joined with Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers [and several legislators] to put together and work with a Read to Lead task force – which was a diverse group of educators, reading specialists, parents and others from across the state to create a plan for improving the reading skills of students.
http://www.walker.wi.gov/Default.aspx?Page=d00003d4-91e4-4aeb-a13a-9f097ca9adcd
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