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 Gary R. Herbert's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- Continue to fully invest in the growing schools
STEM
-- Invest $20 million for STEM education. Eight state institutions of higher learning are reprioritizing their budgets to match that funding dollar for dollar.
Technology
-- Continue to provide our students critical tools like computer adaptive testing and other technologies, across all grade levels and socioeconomic strata.
Teacher Evaluations/Performance Pay
-- Support continued implementation of teacher evaluation and performance pay.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
At-risk Students - Individual Instruction
-- Invested millions in enhanced individualized instruction and help for at-risk children.
Finance
-- Increased per pupil spending.
Postsecondary Finance
-- Invested millions more in higher education, including applied technology colleges.
Student Achievement
-- National average Advanced Placement test score is 2.84. Utah's is 3.1. More than 27,000 students prepare for college through concurrent enrollment, and compared to other states with a high percentage of students taking the ACT, Utah ranks second in test scores.
Teacher Benefits
-- Covered the increased cost of healthcare for teachers.
Full Text: http://www.utah.gov/governor/docs/stateofstate/2013StateoftheStateAddress.pdf |  |
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