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 Pat Quinn's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
P-3 Systems - Finance
-- Invest more dollars in early childhood education.
Attendance - Compulsory
-- Raise the minimum school attendance age to 18.
Finance; Facilities
-- Invest in education through the Illinois Jobs Agenda for 2012. This investment will create jobs now as classrooms are upgraded with modern labs, smart technology, digital books, high-speed Internet access, and 21st century efficiency.
Postsecondary - Financial Aid
-- Make a significant investment in more state MAP scholarships to help students attend college.
Postsecondary Success - Completion Rates
-- Set goal to have at least 60 percent of adults in the state to have a college degree, an associate degree or a career certificate by 2025.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Accountability - Reporting
-- Passed laws that improve school report cards so that parents have more information about the schools that educate their kids.
Facilities
-- Built and renovated more than 400 schools from Western Illinois University's new riverfront campus in Moline to the new Transportation Education Center at SIU in Carbondale and from the repurposed Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb to the new electrical and computer engineering building at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
School Calendar
-- Passed laws that lay the groundwork for a longer school day and a longer school year.
Teacher Quality - Evaluations; Tenure
-- Passed laws that set clear benchmarks for teacher evaluation and put performance above tenure.
Postsecondary - Financial Aid; Immigrant Education
-- Passed the Illinois DREAM Act to help high school graduates from immigrant families.
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