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 Mitch Daniels' State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Postsecondary
--Assist students with the cost of higher education by empowering the Higher Ed Commission to limit the "credit creep" that increases both time to graduation and student expense.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
K-12 Finance
--K-12 spending is now 56% of the entire state budget, the highest percentage of any state in the nation.
Public Education Reform
--Others are praising Indiana's public education reforms. Others are following Indiana because of the state's commitment to rewarding the best teachers, liberating principals and superintendents, and providing low- and middle-income parents the same choices as their wealthier neighbors. This year, Indiana will end practice of promoting students who can't read to 4th grade, and reducing college costs for students who graduate from high school in 11 years.
State Employees
--Indiana now pays state workers on a performance basis, so those doing the best job are properly rewarded for their superior efforts.
http://in.gov/gov/2012stateofstate.htm?WT.cg_n=GOV_billboards&WT.cg_s=090211_01_SOS2012 |
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