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 Scott Walker's 2013 State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Accountability
-- Reward and replicate success—all across the state. Lay out plans in the budget to provide a financial incentive for high-performing and rapidly improving schools.
-- At the same time, outline a plan to help failing schools fundamentally change their structure and dramatically improve their results. Our goal is to help each school excel, so every child in the state has access to a great education.
Reading/Literacy
-- Again this year, I challenge each of you to join with me and find some time to mentor a student in reading.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Accountability--Reporting
--Released the first report card evaluating each school in the state.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Worked with the University of Wisconsin System on a new flexible degree program called UW FlexOption to help adult learners earn degrees in targeted fields. The UW FlexOption will provide a less time-consuming, less costly way to finish off a degree. It will help prepare more people to fill the critical needs we have in the workforce.
-- Partnered with the Wisconsin Covenant Foundation to provide grants to technical colleges and employers in various regions to improve workforce development.
Finance
-- Reforms gave schools and local governments flexibility to make management choices to improve their communities, while saving money. For example, technical schools are saving millions of dollars by making simple, common sense changes to instructor schedules and overtime policies.
Reading/Literacy
-- Funds in the last budget provided reading screeners to assess kids as they come into kindergarten.
-- Put in place a series of other important reforms to improve our early childhood and elementary school reading skills. One other great way to help improve reading skills is by increasing the number of people who read to our kids. Last year, I challenged all of us to mentor a child as a reading buddy.
Teaching Quality
--The reforms we enacted over the past two years saved school districts hundreds of millions of dollars and allowed each district to hire based on merit and pay based on performance.
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