The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2013 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 Phil Bryant's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Dropout Prevention
-- Fund national certifications for high school students enrolled in workforce training.
Choice - Charter Schools
-- Pass a charter school act.
Choice - Open Enrollment
-- Implement an open enrollment policy.
Choice - Vouchers
-- Create privately funded Opportunity Scholarships for students who are below 250 percent of the poverty level and live in D
and F schools districts.
P-3 - Best Practices
-- Fund $3 million to help Mississippi Building Blocks continue literacy research and thereby develop best practices in early education.
Postsecondary
-- Build new expansion at University of Mississippi's School of Medicine. With the addition of new classrooms and laboratories, each incoming class of medical students will increase to more than 160.
Reading/Literacy
-- End social promotion of third grade students who cannot read on a third-grade level.
-- Fund $15 million to assist with literacy improvement efforts. These funds will help us train teachers on best-practices in reading instruction and will also help provide reading interventionists to help struggling third-graders and other students.
Teacher Pay-for-Performance
-- Reward best teachers with higher pay.
Teacher Preparation
--Raise the bar for new teachers by raising the entrance standard for education programs. A student must have a 21 ACT score and a minimum GPA of 3.0 to become a teacher. Why would we want anything less for our students?
Teacher Recruitment - Scholarships
-- Fund 200 scholarships for students who have a 28 ACT score, a 3.5 GPA, and who commit to teaching in Mississippi public schools for five years.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
State Policymaking - Task Forces
-- Formed a working group of educators at all levels to identify the core problems in Mississippi's public education system and develop realistic recommendations for improvement.
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