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 John Hickenlooper's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
P-3 - Early Literacy
-- Consolidate early childhood services into a new office in the Department of Human Services.
-- Create a state-local strategy that integrates prevention and intervention, quality early learning and family support and engagement.
-- Make Colorado a national model for early literacy.
-- Promote early child literacy by developing intervention strategies with parents and teachers to identify failing students long before they reach the third grade and keep them from an illiterate future.
Finance
-- Will appeal the decision to secure a final resolution of the constitutional issues raised in the court decision on school funding, but the question of finding additional revenue for education is one of Colorado's greatest budget pressures.
-- Support authorization of $7.7 million to continue the implementation of the teacher effectiveness reforms.
Governance
--Scrub every state agency to eliminate red tape.
Teaching Quality
Support passage of legislation approving these state board rules that implement S.B. 191, the comprehensive bill on teacher effectiveness.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
--Colorado is a nationally-recognized model for teacher effectiveness
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