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 Gary R. Herbert's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Distance Learning
-- Introduce additional online college courses, providing another avenue for high school students to earn college credit before graduation.
-- Expand utahfutures.org, which provides students with online career counseling to ensure the education they receive today will get them a job tomorrow.
Finance
-- Call for maintaining base funding and adding $111 million in NEW money for our public schools, including a modest, but well-deserved, pay increase for our teachers.
College Completion
-- Reach the goal of ensuring that 66% of Utah adults have a degree or professional certification by the year 2020.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
P-3 Early Care and Intervention
-- Expanded early intervention programs for our at-risk students, programs empirically proven to help reach our critical goal of reading proficiency by the end of the third grade.
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