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| Assessment |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| Alaska | Governor Sarah Palin's State of the State Address
Finance
-- Shaping a three-year funding plan to enable schools to focus on innovation and accountability to see superior results. We're asking lawmakers to pass a new K-12 funding plan early this year. This is a significant investment that is needed to increase the base student allocation, district cost factors and intensive needs students. It includes $100 million in school construction and deferred maintenance.
-- Three-year Education Plan invests more than a billion dollars each year. We must forward-fund education, letting schools plan ahead. We must stop pink-slipping teachers, and then struggle to recruit and retain them the next year.
-- Put $7 billion dollars into the Permanent Fund, Constitutional Budget Reserve, the Education Fund and PERS/TRS debt relief.
Health
-- Combat alcohol, abuse and suicide through Youth Wellness Initiatives.
-- Educate kids about healthy eating and physical activities.
High School
-- Focus on foundational skills needed in the "real-world" workplace and in college.
-- It's a privileged obligation we have to "open education doors." Every child, of every ability, is to be cherished and loved and taught. Every child provides this world hope. They are the most beautiful ingredient in our sometimes muddied up world. Stepping through "the door" is about more than passing a standardized test. We need kids prepared to pass life's tests – like getting a job and valuing a strong work ethic.
Workforce Training and Postsecondary
-- Boost job training and University options. Proposing more than $10 million in new funding for apprenticeship programs, expansion of construction, engineering and health care degrees to meet demands. It's about results and getting kids excited about their future – whether it is college, trade school or military.
-- Make attending Alaska's universities and trade schools a reality for more Alaskans through merit scholarships.
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php?id=829 | | |
| Illinois | Governor Rod R. Blagojevich's State of the State and Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Address
Finance
-- Pass a capital bill to fund necessary investments in aging infrastructure (bridges, roads, schools) and that puts people to work. (Proposing a multi-faceted approach that centers around private investment in the Lottery -- along with other funding mechanisms.) There are too many school children trying to learn their lessons in classrooms that are overcrowded, or going to school in buildings that are old and crumbling and not good places to learn. Let's build them good places to learn.
-- Cut spending by 3% across the board, in areas outside health care, education, and public safety. Also, cut more pork, consolidate more administrative functions and close unnecessary facilities.
http://www.illinois.gov/gov/budgetaddress/documents/022008SPEECHtext.pdf | | |
| Massachusetts | Governor Deval Patrick's State of the Commonwealth Address
Finance -- Facilities -- Kindergarten -- Extended Learning
-- Start with education and invest in strategies that work. Commit a record $223 million more to support public schools.
-- Make significant increases in early education grants, all-day kindergarten programs, and extended learning time.
-- Give the 275,000 students and faculty in our public colleges and universities the quality labs, lecture halls and dormitories they deserve.
-- Support these budget initiatives and pass the higher ed bond bill.
-- Give our cities and towns the tools they need to keep property taxes down.
Governance
-- Advance the Readiness Project, a 10-year strategic plan for the future of education in the Commonwealth. This plan creates an Executive Office of Education consisting of Early Education and Care (existing), Elementary and Secondary Education (new name for the existing Department of Education) and Higher Education (new department that will include personnel now staffing the Board of Higher Education). Establishes a Secretary of Education. Maintains existing boards -- with two additional members each. Provides the governor with authority to appoint the chair of the UMass board.
-- The five objectives of the Readiness Project [Early Learning -- Teaching Quality -- Access -- High School--Transitions -- P-16 -- Student Support]:
1. Provide every child with the opportunity to enter public school ready to learn.
2. Provide every student with outstanding and highly qualified teachers who are respected professionals recruited from among the best and the brightest in the Commonwealth.
3. Provide every student with the support necessary to meet the state's high standards and high expectations.
4. Provide the support and infrastructure needed to ensure the opportunity for every student to have an accessible, affordable and globally competitive higher education.
5. Provide an education system that enables every student to transition successfully from high school to higher education, to the work force ready to succeed and to be a productive, engaged and contributing citizen.
http://www.mass.gov/Agov3/video/2008-01-24_sotc.rtf | | |
| Missouri | Governor Matt Blunt's State of the State Address
Economic Development -- STEM
-- Increase investment in math and science education. To ensure that the next generation enjoys even greater prosperity, we must provide our students with a world-class education in math, engineering, technology, and science.
-- Invest $5 million to create 100 technologically-advanced classrooms and to equip 300 classrooms with advanced math and science curriculum.
Exceptional Children
-- Invest $5 million for the Thompson Center in Columbia, a world-class treatment and research facility we will help build right here in central Missouri. Combined, this funding will
improve the lives of Missouri families struggling with autism.
Extended School Days
-- Invest $1.1 million for after-school programs, which help students learn, stay fit, stay safe, and stay out of trouble.
Finance
-- Over four years, we will have invested an additional $1.2 billion in education.
-- Significantly increase funding at all levels – from pre-school to graduate school. Elementary and secondary schools receive an increase of $121 million, or more than 4 percent from last year. Missouri colleges and universities receive more than $54.2 million in direct funding, an increase of more than 6 percent. That includes funding to train more doctors, nurses, dentists, and pharmacists to meet the health care needs of Missourians.
-- Stop excessive local increases in property tax by developing tax reform that includes truth in taxation and mandatory levy rollbacks.
Financial Aid
-- Continue to increase scholarship funding -- more than $25 million for A+ student scholarships, helping more than 20,000 Missourians attend community colleges, nearly doubling the program's funding since January of 2005.
-- Quadruple investment in needs-based scholarships by allocating $100 million for Access Missouri scholarships.
High School
-- Invest three-quarters of a million dollars to train nearly 1,000 new Advanced Placement teachers and to help more than 6,000 Missouri students take Advanced Placement tests.
Postsecondary
-- Invest in better classrooms and labs at the higher education level.
-- Make further investments such as $31 million for construction, renovation, and improvement of the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center at the University of Missouri, and another $15 million for the Pharmacy and Nursing Building at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Safety/Student Discipline
-- Increase total funding to $1.5 million for Cyber Crime Task Forces grants so that law enforcement can catch predators before they harm a Missouri child.
http://gov.missouri.gov/State_of_the_State_2008.pdf | | |
| New Mexico | Governor Bill Richardson's State of the State Address
Accountability--School Improvement
-- For those schools identified as needing improvement, we won't give a bad grade and walk away. Instead, we are going try to help these schools. We are going to apply new academic approaches. We are going to provide new incentives for success. And we are going to boost hands-on training for teachers.
Arts Education
-- Maintain commitment to the arts so it remains a key part of every child's education.
Early Learning
-- Create Pre-K opportunities for an additional 2,000 children, which will help us close the achievement gap – before it starts.
Finance--Facilities
-- Require any new higher education buildings to meet a higher standard of energy efficiency, and current buildings to lower their energy usage through efficiency improvements.
-- Invest another 211 million dollars to improve and modernize our elementary, middle and high schools.
-- Invest 152 million to build state of the art facilities for our university and college campuses.
Health
-- Continue progress on making sure every child has a healthy breakfast, mandatory physical education -- whether they live in an urban area or the most rural setting.
Postsecondary
-- Help scientists, physicians and researchers at the University of New Mexico unlock the potential of stem cell research—and help find the cures for our world's most deadly diseases.
-- Create the first dental school in New Mexico to address our state's gaps in oral health care.
Teaching Quality
-- Spend an additional 60-million dollars to continue to increase teacher and educational employee salaries.
http://www.governor.state.nm.us/2008%20State%20of%20the%20State.pdf | | |
| South Dakota | Governor Mike Rounds State of the State Address
Finance--Postsecondary Facilities
-- Partner with the Board of Regents to renovate and to revitalize the science facilities at public universities, because it is truly important for the future of South Dakota's students and our economic development plans. The private sector already recognizes this important move. Avera recently announced a multi-million dollar donation to South Dakota State University to rebuild and expand Shepard Hall. Therefore, the Board of Regents and I have agreed to a $65 million bonding plan.
Finance
-- Requesting a 2.5 percent increase in per student allocation for state aid to local schools, which is one percent higher than the anticipated inflation rate as provided by law for the next school year.
-- Fix the property tax problem. Statewide, more than $14.1 billion of property value is not taxed because of the laws now in place—that's nearly a quarter of our state's property value of $51 billion. In 1998, we had over 1,400 usable agricultural sales in the state that could be used in assessing agricultural properties. In 2006, we had just 200 for the entire state. It is not possible to fairly and accurately value all of the agricultural land in the state using just 200 sales. We are rapidly approaching the point where the current system is no longer workable. We've had several study committees and many bills introduced over the last several years. I pledge my support in working with you, but the time has come, we need to work together and fix this problem during this legislative session.
-- Use the Energy Conservation Revolving Loan to provide low interest loans to schools, cities, counties, universities, tech schools, and state agencies that have developed good ways to save tax dollars by becoming more energy efficient. Preference will be given to energy efficiency improvement projects with the shortest payback period.
Financial Aid
-- Expand Opportunity Scholarships to even more South Dakota students (3,465 were funded last the past several years) by lowering the ACT requirement from 24 to 23 to allow more than 200 more students to qualify.
Teacher Compensation
-- Add $4,000,000 in funding for teacher salary enhancements (market compensation, additional training, recruitment for high-need schools).
Technology
-- Expand the Classrooms Connections Program through additional funding: $2,954,000 for year 3 to purchase 4,600 more laptop computers for high school students and 400 more for their teachers. This year, 41 school districts are in the Classroom Connections Program. 9,600 students have laptops or tablet computers. That's 25 percent of the high school students in South Dakota. If additional funding is approved, 14,200 students will have computers next year, and that would raise the percentage to 38 percent of our high school students.
-- Asking for funding to migrate South Dakota's six public universities toward a mobile computing environment. The students that graduate from our high schools and attend one of our public universities will use laptops and tablet computers in their courses of study. It is, therefore, imperative that we start these students on a path toward using computers for learning in our public schools and that our universities be prepared to accept them.
http://sd.gov/docs/STATE%20OF%20THE%20STATE%20SPEECH%202008.pdf | | |
| Tennessee | Governor Phil Bredeson's State of the State Address
Early Learning
-- Invest $25 million to continue meeting the requests of communities across our state for Pre-K classrooms. That is not enough to fund all of the requests that we have, but will keep us moving forward.
Finance
-- Fully fund the BEP (Basic Education Program). Incorporate the remainder of the tobacco tax money—we estimate it at $87 million—to further fill out the framework of BEP 2.0.
Financial Aid
-- Change the grade point average for retention of the scholarship from 3.0 to 2.75 (to better accommodate for the increased difficulty of college studies and to help address the fact that nearly 80% of the scholarship winners lose their scholarship during their time in college).
-- Keep the merit scholarship intact, but expand assistance to others as well. Take about half of the unallocated lottery reserves, $200 million specifically, and use it to establish an endowment for the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation (TSAC). Between the earnings from this endowment and a small additional appropriation from the annual lottery surplus, we will be able to assist financially another 12-15,000 deserving and hard-working Tennessee students to earn a college education.
http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/governor/viewArticleContent.do?id=1170&page=0 | | |
| Vermont | Governor James Douglas' State of the State Address
Early Learning
-- Continue to invest in the healthy development of our youngest children and prepare them to arrive at school ready to learn and thrive. The Building Bright Futures initiative has worked to coordinate and support an integrated system of early childhood care, health and education that is fiscally sustainable.
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)
-- Rethink how science, technology, engineering and mathematics are taught. Requesting that the State Board and Department of Education help schools implement more innovative science, technology, engineering and mathematics curricula. By rethinking how our education resources are deployed, we can make this transformation. We know that our teachers are ready for the challenge; now let's build a classroom framework to support them.
Finance
-- Cut property taxes directly by $25 million.
-- Invest another $25 million in school modernization projects by utilizing the projected $50 million of proceeds from leasing our state lottery. Not only will this proposal ease the financial strain on homeowners, it will help clear the backlog of school construction, giving our students 21st century learning environments in energy efficient buildings, which will save taxpayers money in the long run.
Financial Aid, Community Colleges
-- Invest $8 million—a 14 percent increase over last year's appropriation—in college scholarships and workforce training programs.
http://governor.vermont.gov/speeches/state_of_the_state-1-10-08.pdf | | |
| Virginia | Governor Tim Kaine's State of the Commonwealth Address
Early Learning
-- Expand the Virginia Preschool Initiative from 13,000 to nearly 20,000 children will give a better start to those children who need it most. Expansion will be based on Start Strong Council, including education experts, business leaders, children's advocates, local officials, and legislators of both parties and draws on the experiences of the existing pre-k program, the pilot projects and last fall's report by the JLARC.
-- Increase state support for cities and counties offering pre-k programs, make more at-risk students eligible and utilize high-quality private providers so that more money can be spent on education, instead of bricks and mortar.
-- Enhance quality and accountability, build collaboration among public, private and Head Start programs, and strengthen the early childhood workforce.
Finance, Standards, At-Risk
-- Ensure that the gains made in early education are maintained by fully funding the rebenchmarking of the Standards of Quality for K-12 and maintaining the "At Risk" monies that the General Assembly has traditionally approved.
Teacher Compensation
-- Continue to fund the progress made in raising teachers' salaries toward the national average by funding the state share of a 3.5% pay increase for teachers and other instructional staff effective July 1, 2009.
Postsecondary and Economic Development
-- Encourage high school graduates to continue their education at universities, four year colleges, career and technical schools, and community colleges by giving those institutions what they need to serve students who will ultimately become the workforce driving Virginia's economic engine.
-- Make significant new investments in higher education to help create high-tech jobs through research and innovation. This is particularly important at a time when job growth is slowing.
Proposing a $1.6 billion bond package to continue the acceleration of top notch higher education system. This investment, to be phased in over the next 5 to 7 years, will provide facilities across the Commonwealth for researchers to develop new, cutting-edge technologies and turn them into commercial assets. The bond package centers largely on engineering, science, business, and health professions. It will support higher education system's continuing efforts to build a more talented workforce that is fully prepared to compete in a global economy. Beginning these needed projects now will be less costly than in future years, saving taxpayers millions of dollars. And the bond package fits well within our conservative debt service guidelines.
-- Supplement these capital projects by operational funds for increased base adequacy funding, more financial aid, and an expanded focus on competitive research opportunities.
-- Place the main responsibility for workforce development in the Virginia Community College System.
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/MediaRelations/Speeches/2008/SOTC.cfm | | |
| Wyoming | Governor Dave Freudenthal's State of the State Address
Community Colleges
-- Give the Community College Commission the power to audit and to develop a uniform method of tracking dollars and students.
-- Allow the state to loan the community colleges 50 percent of the funding for capital construction. They raise half; the State would loan them half. However, dormitories should not be included in the major maintenance funding from the State. Those are revenue-generating facilities and they should be able
to operate on their own.
http://governor.wy.gov/Media.aspx?MediaId=353 | | |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
| 8 | |
| Governance |
| 2 | |
| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| High School |
| 11 | |
| High School--Advanced Placement |
| 1 | |
| High School--College Readiness |
| 1 | |
| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
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| International Benchmarking |
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| Leadership |
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| Mentoring/Tutoring |
| 1 | |
| No Child Left Behind |
| 1 | |
| No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
| 1 | |
| No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
| 2 | |
| P-16 or P-20 |
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| P-3 |
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
| 1 | |
| P-3 Kindergarten |
| 5 | |
| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
| 1 | |
| P-3 Preschool |
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| Parent/Family |
| 3 | |
| Postsecondary |
| 8 | |
| Postsecondary Accountability |
| 1 | |
| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
| 16 | |
| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
| 6 | |
| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
| 1 | |
| Postsecondary Finance |
| 5 | |
| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
| 3 | |
| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
| 5 | |
| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
| 3 | |
| Postsecondary Students--Adults |
| 4 | |
| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
| 2 | |
| Reading/Literacy |
| 2 | |
| Remediation (K-12) |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
| 2 | |
| School Safety |
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| School/District Structure/Operations |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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| Special Education |
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| Standards |
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| State Longitudinal Data Systems |
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| STEM |
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| Student Achievement |
| 1 | |
| Student Achievement--Closing the Achievement Gap |
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| Teaching Quality |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
| 2 | |
| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
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| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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| Technology |
| 4 | |
| Technology--Computer Skills |
| 1 | |
| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
| 1 | |
| Technology--Internet Safety |
| 1 | |
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