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 John Kasich's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Career/Technical Education
--Bring vocational education back strong in K-12 education.
Charter Schools
--Ask the legislature to exercise proper oversight of charter schools.
Urban
--Change urban education in Ohio. SStudy successful schools in urban areas.
Economic/Workforce Development--Research
--Use university research to commercialize, and create jobs and spinoff companies.
Workforce Development, Community Colleges
--Ask companies to forecast workforce needs so the state can point students to where the jobs are.
--Match community colleges with business community needs and forecasting.
--Develop workforce training reform plan.
Postsecondary Completion
--Improve completion rates for technical degrees, community college degrees, and university degrees.
--Increase graduation rates for all universities.
Postsecondary Finance, Facilities
--Have universities collaborate on single capital bill.
--Increase postsecondary collaboration to reduce duplicative programs across campuses.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Accountability
--Allow parents, teachers to take over a school that continues to fail.
--Public reporting on how schools are doing statewide.
Teacher Evaluation
--Took teacher evaluation framework to state board of education. Teachers want to make sure there are multiple ways for them to be measured.
Teach for America
--Brought Teach for America to Ohio.
Vouchers, Charters
--Went from 13,000 vouchers to 30,000 families. Next year there will be 60,000 vouchers.
--Lifted the charter school cap.
Postsecondary, Economic Development
--Created a course at several universities, community colleges to train students in risk management to work in Cleveland financial sector.
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