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 Susana Martinez's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Accountability
-- Develop preliminary, baseline grades for New Mexico schools. By this summer, every school will receive an official letter grade – A, B, C, D, or F.
Assessment - College Entrance Exams, Formative/Interim
-- Assess kids from the 4th to 10th grades to catch kids before they fall too far behind.
-- Pay for 10th graders to take the Pre-SAT.
High-School - Advanced Placement, Drop-out Rates
-- Expand access to Advanced Placement classes for low-income students.
-- Raise graduation rates.
Reading/Literacy
-- Assess children early on – in kindergarten, first, second grade…
-- Buy every New Mexico first grader a reading book of their very own.
-- Encourage parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles to read to their children.
-- Invest $17 million in reading reforms
-- Ensure every child learns the basics and identify and help those who struggle before the third grade.
-- Provide immediate help through tutoring and extra individual attention to students who are struggling.
-- Put more reading coaches in elementary schools.
Teacher Quality - Evaluations
-- Develop a new teacher evaluation system.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Finance
-- Protected classroom spending.
-- School districts cut administrative waste and increased the percentage of their funding that went directly into the classroom.
Demographics - Condition of Children
-- Provided school clothes for kids most in need.
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