The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2013 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 Mike Beebe's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- Ensure that our schools have adequate funding to continue the push toward excellence. A recent State Supreme Court ruling raises serious questions about the long-term path of Arkansas education policy, and it may require us to act legislatively in the short term. We've asked the Court to revisit the matter, and we'll see what they decide.
-- Address the goal of equity between higher-education institutions in a small, modest way.
Military
-- Take steps to help military families who find themselves stationed in Arkansas by joining an interstate education compact to give incoming students of these families a smoother transition into our schools.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Student Achievement
-- For a second consecutive year, Arkansas is ranked fifth in the country for overall K-12 education. There are two categories in there that we're still too low in. The one that's the most pressing is involves the raw scores of our students vis-a-vis their counterparts across the country. We've made progress, but not nearly enough.
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