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 John Hickenlooper's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- Fund education above inflation and enrollment.
Finance - Funding Formula
-- Ensure that there is a school finance formula that offers equity to all districts.
P-3 - Preschool/Kindergarten
-- Serve up to 6,500 new kindergartners and preschoolers.
Postsecondary - Finance
-- Adopt a need-based financial allocation process to support Coloradans with the highest need and incentivizes retention and timely completion.
Teacher Preparation
-- Continue to build the best educator pipeline in the country and attract the best and brightest people to enter teaching.
Teacher Retention
-- Find new ways to retain and reward current teachers.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
P-3 - Reading/Literacy
-- Passed an early childhood literacy program (The Read Act) which identifies struggling readers early and provides interventions so that all children can read by the end of third grade.
Finance - Federal
-- Received a $29.9 million "Race to the Top" grant to support early childhood education and enhance early literacy.
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