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 Jay Nixon's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Charter Schools - Evaluations
-- Pass a comprehensive charter school accountability bill that holds all charter schools - and their sponsors - to high standards of academic achievement and financial integrity.
Finance
-- Increase funding for K-12 classrooms.
Teaching Quality - Recruitment at High-Risk Schools, Evaluation and Effectiveness
-- Recruit our best college students to become teachers in those urban and rural public schools that have the greatest needs and hold them accountable for what kids are learning.
Special Education - Autism
-- Pass legislation to increase access to care by expanding the number of licensed professionals working with children with autism.
Postsecondary - Financial Aid
-- Provide stable funding for our state college scholarships, including Bright Flight, Access Missouri, and A+.
-- Increase number of A+ scholarships granted to students from 12,500 this year to 14,000 next year.
High School - Dual Enrollment; Career/Technical Education - Apprenticeships; Postsecondary - Financial Aid
-- Expand Innovation Campuses which allow students to enroll in college courses while still in high school, and then participate in high-impact apprenticeships throughout the college curriculum. Corporate partners will underwrite tuition scholarships, and faculty and employers will partner to guide each student.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Student Achievement
-- Students have shown academic improvement for four years in a row.
Distance Learning
-- Expanded the ability of a local school in Otterville to provide web-based classes using streaming video.
Finance
-- Maintained level funding for K-12 classrooms during difficult economic times.
Teaching Quality - Certification, Alternative Preparation
-- Put teaching certifications on-line.
Special Education - Autism
-- Passed legislation to ensure that children with autism get the therapy they need.
Community/Technical Colleges, Economic/Workforce Demand
-- Established new higher-education programs like Caring for Missourians, Training for Tomorrow, MoHealthWINS and our Nurse Training Initiative through community colleges in order to prepare thousands more Missourians for rewarding careers.
-- Increased investment in our Customized Training Program by 50 percent. The investment allowed employers to provide on-the-job training to nearly 37,000 workers who are currently working at more than 300 Missouri businesses.
Postsecondary - Enrollment
-- Increased enrollment at public colleges - over the past three years, we've added 31,000 students. That's set a new record each fall.
High School
-- Added 110 "A+" schools (The A+ Schools Program mobilizes an intensive partnership among high schools, community colleges, students, teachers, parents, labor, businesses, and communities to give these students the motivation, skills, and knowledge to graduate from high school. The schools create an innovative and well-designed path from high school to high skill, high wage jobs).
-- Increased the number of students enrolled in A+ schools by 30%.
Postsecondary - Tuition Affordability
-- Froze tuition in 2009 and 2010 at all public colleges and universities.
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