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 Martin O'Malley's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Economy
-- Increase jobs in education by 114,000.
Finance
-- Invest to improve public education
Finance - Buildings
-- Invest to build new schools.
Postsecondary Access
-- Offer early access to affordable college credit by letting motivated high schools students work toward both their two-year Associates Degree and their high school diploma – at the same time.
Postsecondary - Community Colleges
-- Increase funding for community colleges
Postsecondary - Completion
-- Redesign college curricula and courses to better promote completion.
-- Move the system toward rewarding a student's competency, and not merely the years he or she spends sitting in a lecture hall.
-- Rework financial aid so that more students can afford to carry full course loads to complete their degrees on or ahead of time.
-- Give students more on-line options for earning college credit.
Postsecondary Finance - Tuition
-- Continue to hold down the cost of college tuition.
School Safety
-- Invest in security upgrades in our schools.
Technology
-- Invest in iPads, laptops, smart-boards, and 21st century digital learning tools.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
General
-- Remained #1 in education (best public schools in America) five years in a row.
-- Record high student achievement.
-- Record high graduation rates.
-- Significantly closed the achievement gaps between white and non-white students.
-- Achieved highest Advanced Placement scores in science, technology, engineering, and math MD students have ever achieved.
-- Have the best overall AP scores of any state in the nation.
Postsecondary Finance - Tuition
-- Remained #1 in holding down the cost of college tuition.
Full Text: http://www.governor.maryland.gov/blog/?p=8075 |
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