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 Dannel P. Malloy's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
P-3 - Access, Quality
-- Enhance families' access to early childhood education by creating new seats for 500 children who can't afford preschool. And work to get to universal pre-K access.
-- Investing in a new early childhood education rating system to improve quality.
Accountability - School Improvement
-- Strengthen and expand high-quality school models – whether they are traditional schools, magnet schools, charter schools, or other successful models – and hold them accountable for their results and inclusiveness.
Accountability - Interventions
-- Transform schools with the worst legacies of low achievement. The state will serve as a temporary trustee of schools that lack the capacity to improve themselves. These schools will become part of a Commissioner's Network and they will receive our most intensive interventions and supports.
Finance
-- Spend 128 million dollars to increase funding for education, much of it targeted to the lowest performing districts.
-- Add 50 million to the Education Cost Sharing formula, with the vast majority of that money targeted to the districts serving students with the greatest need.
State Policymaking
-- Remove red tape and barriers to success. The state can streamline its systems – in teacher certification, data collection, and elsewhere – and free districts to innovate and perform.
Teaching Quality
-- Create new career opportunities with a new master teacher certificate so that teachers do not have to leave the classroom to advance in their profession.
Teaching Quality - Teacher Preparation
-- Overhaul teacher preparation programs so that the brightest young people go into teaching and graduate with the skills to succeed.
Teaching Quality - Tenure
-- Reform tenure policies. Tenure will have to be earned and re-earned – earned by meeting certain objective performance standards, including student performance, school performance, and parent and peer reviews. If teachers want to keep that tenure, they will have to continue to prove their effectiveness in the classroom as their career progresses.
Teaching Quality - Pay-for-Performance
-- Allow local school districts, if they choose, to provide career advancement opportunities and financial incentives as a way of rewarding teachers who consistently receive high performance ratings.
Teaching Quality - Professional Development
-- Invest in better on-the-job training, such as one-on-one coaching in the classroom.
-- Provide professional development (responsibility of district) to a teacher that begins to struggle at any point after they've earned tenure
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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http://www.governor.ct.gov/malloy/cwp/view.asp?A=11&Q=498904 |
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