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2013 State of the State Address
Education-Related Proposals
Wyoming


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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.

Governor Matthew H. Mead's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS

Finance
-- Reduce budget for community colleges and the University by 6%.
-- Provide roughly $600 million for new schools over the next five years.

Postsecondary
-- Build a Tier I School of Engineering at UW.

Priorities
-- Focus on high school graduation rates, dual immersion language opportunities, charter schools, career technical education, and how to minimize the potential for school violence.

Teacher/School Personnel Compensation
-- Increase state employee salaries (incl. UW and community college personnel) by $8.5 million and offer one-time merit-based bonuses of $2.5 million.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

State Policymaking - Task Force
-- Appointed a task force to help define what a Tier I university looks like in preparation for a new Tier I School of Engineering at UW.

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