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 Mary Fallin's 2013 State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- Increase education spending by $13.5 million in order to fund recently enacted reforms.
STEM
-- Emphasize STEM in all levels of public education.
Teacher Compensation
-- Invest $8.5 million of supplemental funding to pay for teachers' health benefits.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Accountability
-- Developed an A-F grading system for public schools.
High School -- College and Career Readiness
-- Implemented high school exit exams.
-- Aligned the high school diploma with college, career and citizen ready standards.
Reading/Literacy
-- Put reforms into place to help ensure that every third grader can read at grade appropriate level before they advance to the fourth grade.
Postsecondary
-- Awarded almost 2,000 more college degrees and career tech certificates than the previous year.
Technology
-- Developed a new, voluntary program for schools known as "Open Range" that will be available to help schools begin their own IT consolidation efforts, improve their technology and free up more dollars in the process.
Full Text: http://www.ok.gov/governor/documents/2013%20State%20of%20the%20State%20-%20Text%20as%20Prepared%20for%20Delivery.pdf |
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