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 Martin O'Malley's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Facilities
-- Build modern schools.
Teacher Quality - Pensions
-- Split the responsibility of the pension system 50/50 between state and counties.
Teaching Quality - Recruitment and Retention
--Create and save 78,000 teaching jobs at public schools across the state.
Postsecondary, Community Colleges - Facilities
-- Build new facilities at Cecil Community College, Harford Community College and Howard Community College as well as Frostberg State and Morgan State University.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Student Achievement
-- Elementary and middle school students achieved their highest ever scores on the Maryland School Assessment (MSA) in reading and middle school students achieved their highest ever scores in math.
-- High school students achieved the best AP scores in the nation.
-- Rated #1 best school system in nation by Education Week for four years in a row.
Facilities
-- Built new schools and modern classrooms.
High School - Graduation Rates
-- High school graduation rates reached an all-time high.
Postsecondary - Enrollment
-- Enrollment at Maryland's colleges and universities reached an all-time high in Fall 2011. Enrollment in 4-year institutions has grown 21% since 2005.
Postsecondary - Finance
-- Froze in-state tuition at state colleges and universities four years in a row and held increases to 3% for the last three years.
Postsecondary - STEM
-- Colleges are graduating 21% more science, technology, engineering and math students (STEM).
http://www.governor.maryland.gov/documents/StateOfTheState2012.pdf |
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