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 Brian Sandoval's 2013 State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Choice
-- Provide more choice of schools by giving businesses a tax credit for making contributions to a scholarship fund (an opportunity scholarship). These dollars will be distributed, on a means-tested basis, to students at low-performing schools for use in attending the school of their choice.
English Language Learners
-- Invest $14 million in an English Language Learners initiative.
Finance
-- Provide more support for autism and early intervention services
-- Overall, make a new investment of $135 million in Nevada's schoolchildren.
P-3
-- For pre-Three students, increase funding for early education in the state's most at risk schools.
-- Aggressively expand all-day kindergarten among the state's most at-risk schools
-- Allocate 20 million dollars over the biennium for this purpose.
High School
-- Fund the JAG program (Jobs for America's Graduates) to include up to 50 additional high schools by 2014 and to serve nearly 2,000 additional high school
students.
State Longitudinal Data System
-- Fund a data system that links student performance to teacher effectiveness. This system is a long term investment in what will be the backbone of our approach to teacher evaluation.
Teaching Quality
-- Make a new investment in Teach for America to help recruit, train, develop, and place top teacher and leadership talent in Nevada.
Postsecondary
-- With the Chancellor's support, create new courses of study at UNR and UNLV focused specifically on the sectors targeted for economic growth
-- Establish UNLV as the global intellectual hub for gaming, hospitality and entertainment
-- Pair community colleges more closely with workforce needs so that they can deliver students into jobs that will be waiting for them in the new economy
-- Support and extend the Kenny C. Guinn Millennium Scholarship through 2017
-- Financially support the University Cooperative Extension program in rural Nevada.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Governance
-- Reinvigorated the State Board of Education.
Teaching Quality
-- Required performance-based evaluations for teachers -- ending teacher tenure as we know it.
Full text: http://gov.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/govnvgov/Content/2013StateOfTheState.pdf |
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