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2012 State of the State Address
Education-Related Proposals
New York


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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.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's State of the State Address

PROPOSALS

Teacher and School Effectiveness
-- Develop a meaningful teacher evaluation system.
-- Improve management efficiency by making schools accountable for the results they achieve and the dollars they spend.
-- Appoint a bipartisan education commission to work with the Legislature to recommend reforms in these key areas.
-- Consider me (Governor Cuomo) a lobbyist for students.

Economic Development
-- Continue work to build SUNY institutions into leading centers of excellence, innovation, and job creation by committing $10m from the executive branch and $10m from SUNY for awards for which 60 campuses will compete.

Finance
-- Reform the pension system and create a Tier VI retirement plan.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Economic Development
-- Enacted NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant Program (tied academic excellence to economic development)

http://www.governor.ny.gov/stateofthestate2012