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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| Mayor Vincent C. Gray's State of the District Address
PROPOSALS
High School - Graduation Rates
-- Raise graduation rates.
P-3 - Child Care
-- Expand access to universal, high-quality infant and toddler care.
P-3 Systems - Ensuring Quality
-- Test, learn and teach important best practices about early childhood development.
Student Supports - Integrated Services
-- Offer a new resource in our Early Success plan - $12 million, state-of-the-art early childhood Educare Center in the Kenilworth-Parkside Promise neighborhood, which will provide services to 171 children and their families.
Student Achievement
-- Help more students move beyond mere proficiency to advanced levels of achievement.
Workforce Development - Workforce Demand
-- Fundamentally redesign how we approach job training adapted to the needs of the 21st century. It must be data-driven and must equip people with the hard and soft skills necessary to compete for the jobs of tomorrow.
Charter Schools
-- Be a model of how the best public schools can operate in a healthy, virtuous competition with the best public charter schools to spur creativity, learning and achievement that prepares young people to compete in the new economy.
School Structure - Facilities
-- Continue to implement our comprehensive school-modernization plan, rebuilding or renovating our schools.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Special Education
-- Expanded the quality of special education programming, enabling us to serve students closer to home and reduce the number of students attending non-public schools by 20 percent in just the past 11 months.
Student Achievement
-- Seen gains in student performance as measured both by our DC-CAS test and by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
P-3 - Preschool
-- Became the first city in America to offer universal pre-K, and we are now ranked #1 in the nation in pre-kindergarten enrollment.
School Structure - Facilities
-- Opened a new H.D. Woodson High School; renovated Langley School; modernized and expanded facilities at Woodrow Wilson High School, Anacostia High School and Janney Elementary; restored Takoma Education Campus, where we invested $25 million unexpectedly in the aftermath fire in December of 2010; began the modernization of Cardozo High School; and broke ground on a new Dunbar High School. A new Ballou Senior High School and many others will soon follow.
Youth Engagement/Professional Development
-- Engaged over 14,000 youth in the reformed Summer Youth Employment Program last year, teaching them the culture and value of an honest day's work for an honest day's pay.
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