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 Jack Markell's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Develop a Delaware Skills Bank – an inventory of essential tasks for in-demand occupations in the state – and use it to ensure that training programs provide workers with the right opportunities. Once workers have completed the training they need to fill in-demand jobs, make sure that employers know it, by providing these workers with a Career Readiness Certificate that employers respect and trust.
Dropout Prevention
Implement the Youth ChalleNGe program supported by the Delaware National Guard. This is a residential program for a couple dozen Delaware high school dropouts. Through education and mentoring from Guard members, the program targets young people who can get back on a path to a degree and a rewarding life and career. And because Maryland has all of the necessary facilities and because the Department of Defense picks up 75 percent of the cost, this is a very cost-effective way to serve these young people.
Health
-- Increase ten-fold the number of trained, front line mental health personnel in our middle schools.
P-3
-- On track to increase from 20 to 80 the percentage of high need children in child care enrolled in quality-rated early learning programs.
School Choice
-- Create a best-in-class information system on Delaware's schools that provides a clear picture of the different strengths in each school.
-- Give parents the option of a common application to make it easier to apply to multiple schools.
Teacher Compensation
-- Re-examine that pay structure in order to incentivize teaching in high-need schools and critical subjects, raise starting teacher pay, and reward teacher leadership.
Teacher Preparation
-- Strengthen the standards for entry into the teaching profession.
-- Introduce rigorous exit assessment for our preparation programs, which includes demonstration of content knowledge as well as teaching skills.
Teacher Retention
-- Create a Teacher Leaders role which will keep excelling teachers in the classroom by encouraging them to be role models in their schools, and earn more for putting their experience to work in the classroom.
Youth Engagement
-- Provide more opportunities for after-school and summer activities that get kids off the streets and give them exposure to the arts, nature, and physical activity and ensure the staff running these activities receive training in suicide prevention.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Health - Suicide Prevention
-- Funded new training for front line school personnel in Kent and Sussex Counties to recognize early signs of trauma in children, and we worked together with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to offer the highest-quality training to all of our high schools in detection and prevention of depression in teenagers.
Student Achievement/Graduation Rates
-- Moved thousands of students from below or average to higher levels of achievement.
-- Steadily improved graduation rates.
-- Increased number of high school students taking advanced coursework.
Curriculum - Foreign Language
-- Started 340 students in a world language immersion program. Ten thousand Delaware students will participate in the program over the next decade.
Full Text: http://governor.delaware.gov/speeches/2013stateofthestate/2013_sots_address.shtml |  |
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