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 C.L. "Butch" Otter's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- Increase K-12 funding in budget
State Policymaking - Task Forces - School Improvement
-- Assemble a broad cross-section of stakeholders to study the message voters sent (2012 propositions on ballot rejected by voters) and identify elements of school improvement on which there is broad agreement.
Postsecondary/Workforce Demands
-- Continue to create an aerospace center in Coeur d' Alene at North Idaho College to meet workforce demands of a growing industry in the Panhandle.
-- Continue development an industry certified software developer program at College of Western Idaho to help address a chronic shortage of qualified workers for the growing technology sector in Treasure Valley.
-- Continue to build an $8.5 million Applied Technology and Innovation Center.
-- Continue the establishment technology learning and innovation centers for teachers at the University of Idaho and Northwest Nazarene University.
-- Fund rural rotation training for each of the 24 participants in the Internal Medicine Residency program and Boise VA Medical Center.
-- Fund five additional seats in the WWAMI collaborative medical school program at the University of Washington, to go to students in the Targeted Rural and Under-Served Track or TRUST program.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Postsecondary/Workfoce Demans
-- Opened a Professional Technical Education Center in Tampa, belonging to College of Western Idaho.
For Full Text: http://gov.idaho.gov/mediacenter/speeches/sp_2013/State%20of%20the%20State%202013.pdf
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