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| Governor Jack Markell's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Curriculum - Foreign Language
-- Press ahead with the World Language Expansion Initiative.
+ Create partial immersion programs in twenty schools (in the next 5 years), where students will spend half the school day learning in another language.
P-3 Early Grades - Ensuring Quality, Facility Evaluation, Teacher Evaluation (Early Learning Challenge winner)
-- Properly train professionals who care for young children.
-- Ensure that early childcare facilities where our children spend their days will have the best teaching and learning tools.
-- Continually monitor the successes and challenges of centers to ensure continual improvement.
-- Raise the percentage of high-need children in quality-rated programs from 20 percent to nearly 80 percent over the next four years.
-- Introduce a new kindergarten assessment to let us know where our kids stand when they start school.
Teacher Quality - Evaluations
-- Implement without additional delay the Performance Appraisal System, with its focus on student progress.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Curriculum - Foreign Language; High School -Graduation Requirements
-- Completion of a world language is a graduation requirement.
Finance - Federal
-- Won nationwide Race to the Top Grant.
-- Won nationwide Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge.
Standards
-- Established high standards.
Assessments, Accountability
-- Put in place an improved assessment system so parents and teachers can track student progress and identify quickly when students risk falling behind.
Teacher Quality
-- Provide support to teachers with resources that help them raise student achievement.
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