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 Neil Abercrombie's 2013 State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Digital Learning
-- Advocate for a significant investment and commitment to support the DOE and BOE's Digital Materials Initiative to provide students with learning opportunities for the 21st century.
Within the next three years, provide each of our public school students with current curricular materials on a digital device, such as a tablet or laptop. This initiative takes advantage of new technology for learning and the state's broadband infrastructure.Having students with curriculum materials on a digital device solves the problem of not having enough textbooks or obsolete textbooks.
Finance
-- Convene community meetings to solicit public input and feedback for the 21st Century Schools initiative--a public-private partnership that allows the Department of Education to lease underutilized lands for the purpose of generating income to be used to upgrade existing schools or construct new schools. Teachers, administrators, students, parents, community residents and other stakeholders will be included in the community meetings.
P-3
-- Ensure all Hawaii's four-year-olds are healthy, socially developed, and cognitively prepared to learn and succeed on day one of kindergarten.
-- Include $32.5 million for the Executive Office on Early Learning in the biennium budget for a school readiness program.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Finance
-- As a result of our collaborative efforts, shared sacrifice and judicious administrative action, the year-end general fund balances for FY 2011 was $126 million, and for FY 2012 $275 million. For this year, which ends in approximately 5 months, we are again looking at a healthy positive balance.
Student Achievement
-- Students demonstrated unprecedented gains in student achievement. Hawaii was the only state to show gains across the board in every subject and grade level.
Full text: http://governor.hawaii.gov/2013-state-of-the-state/
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