The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2012 state of the state address. To assure that this information reaches you in a timely manner, minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) or format.
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Governor Sean Parnell's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance - Scholarships
-- Invest $400 million in a fund that will pay for Alaska Performance Scholarships for future generations.
Rural - Finance
-- Support funding for five of the highest-priority rural school projects.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Assessments - College Entrance Exams
-- More students are taking the SAT and ACT, with a 20 percent uptick in Fairbanks alone.
Rural - Finance
-- Funded the renovation of a school in Kwigillingok and replaced a school in Napaskiak. This was possible because of a 2-yr old law that provides fair school construction funding between urban and rural districts.
Finance - Scholarships
-- Created a merit scholarship (Alaska Performance Scholarship) that gives all Alaska's children an incentive to complete a more rigorous high school curriculum.
http://gov.alaska.gov/parnell/press-room/full-press-release.html?pr=6011 |
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