The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2009 state of the state addresses. To assure that this information reaches you in a timely manner, minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) or format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the state.
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| Alaska | Governor Sarah Palin's State of the State Address
Accountability
-- Hold schools accountable.
-- Focus on streamlined operations.
Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development, Finance
-- Need responsible resource development – including drilling, mining, timber and tourism – which will lead to more jobs.
-- Propose the Alaska Legacy Plan. I issued an administrative order this week calling for the state's first comprehensive economic strategy. Need to involve business leaders, local officials, and other stakeholders in this strategic action plan for private sector and government to stimulate and diversify the economy.
Career/Technical Education, Economic/Workforce Development
-- Focus on vo-tech and workforce development.
Early Learning
-- Focus on early learning.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance
-- Build a gas line. Alaska's revenue, careers and our ability to diversify our economy – all hinge on the success of this great undertaking. I assure you: The line will be built.
Federal, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Use the state's share of federal funds and Congress' stimulus package for vital needs-- such as infrastructure for our gas pipeline and the Kodiak Launch Facility.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Reduce spending by seven percent from last year's expenditures. Unless the price of a barrel of oil dramatically increases soon, the state faces a potential revenue shortfall in excess of a billion dollars this year.
-- Freeze hiring, exempting public safety, and restrict non-essential purchases. These actions reduce the draw on savings as we monitor revenue for the rest of 2009.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, School Districts
-- Take the next step in our three-year education plan to offer every child the opportunity to learn and work and succeed.
-- Fully forward-fund all our school districts with more than a billion dollars.
Postsecondary
-- Focus on an enhanced University.
Special Education
-- Encourage opportunities for students with special needs.
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php?id=1610 | | |
| Georgia | Governor Sonny Perdue's State of the State Address
Accountability, Accountability--Rewards, Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions, School Districts, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Student Achievement
-- Encourage more school systems to enter into an IE2 contract with the State Board of Education. Under this contract, the state holds the system accountable for increased student achievement above and beyond state and federal requirements, in exchange for local control/flexibility; the system will face serious consequences if they fail to meet the goals.
Assessment, Finance--Performance Funding, Governance, High School, High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates, Leadership, Student Achievement
-- Propose legislation to establish a high school principal incentive pay program for principals who increase student achievement – raising graduation rates and improving SAT and End of Course Test scores.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--Bonds, Postsecondary
-- Introduce a bond package, totaling over $1.2 billion in new investment, to create an estimated 20,000 new jobs and build infrastructure. This package will feature many projects in which both design and construction are funded in the same year, in an effort to ensure their timely completion. The projects will be state-wide and include new construction at our universities, technical schools, local school systems and libraries.
Finance, Finance--District, School Districts
-- Relax expenditure controls on local school systems to allow them more flexibility.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Recommend using a one-time strategy to help balance this year's budget--use the maximum amount available for appropriation from the reserves, appropriating $50 million this year and $408 million next year, as well as $187 million for the midyear education adjustment.
Finance--Performance Funding, Student Achievement, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Propose merit pay legislation to award teachers who show evidence that their classroom instruction leads to increased student achievement.
Governance, Leadership, School Boards
-- Propose legislation to clearly define what citizens expect from school board members and give the state the ability to replace board members with responsible, local citizens when accreditation is threatened.
Mathematics, Science, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Differentiate pay for math and science teachers--introduce a market dynamic into the salary schedule to address these areas.
http://gov.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,78006749_129886711_130508560,00.html | | |
| Illinois | Governor Pat Quinn's State of the State Address
Accountability, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Invest in quality and accountable education.
-- Will not cut back on education.
Community Colleges, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance (Postsecondary), Postsecondary
-- Increase funding for secondary education.
-- Commit 40 million dollars to community colleges and higher education.
Early Learning, Early Learning--Finance, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Increase funding for early childhood education.
Economic/Workforce Development, Facilities
-- Make creating an environment that provides useful, important jobs my top priority.
-- Urge quick passage of the "Illinois Jobs Now" plan, a 26 billion dollar plan to support nearly 340,000 jobs across the state. This plan includes four billion dollars to repair schools and build new ones.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Urge approval of the Illinois Economic Recovery and Tax Reform Act of 2009. The Act includes a sales tax holiday for ten days in August on the purchase of school clothes and school supplies.
-- Realize that education is the key to equal opportunity and economic empowerment.
Elementary Education, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Increase funding for elementary education.
Faculty, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Order state employees to take furloughs of four days.
-- Require across-the-board reductions in grant programs.
-- Make targeted cost-reductions at every state agency.
-- Fix and modernize the state's under-funded public pension systems (e.g. raise the retirement age for new workers and cap cost-of-living increases).
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Face an e11.5 billion-dollar deficit and a mountain of unpaid bills.
-- Propose a budget plan that cuts costs and rescues our state's finances while raising ethical standards.
-- Appoint a new Taxpayer Action Board to evaluate all state spending and all programs.
http://budget.illinois.gov/documents/2009speechbudget.pdf | | |
| Montana | Governor Brian Schweitzer's State of the State Address
Accountability, Accountability (Postsecondary), Postsecondary
-- Hold government accountable.
-- Ensure that all public monies are spent efficiently and government is held accountable for money spent on our universities. This includes the 170 million in university research funds which currently has little oversight.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Will do all we can to give you opportunity again. Montana's state budget is in better shape than almost every other state.
-- Created a rapid response team to assist workers who have experienced job loss and help direct families in need of healthcare and unemployment benefits. The team will be headed up by the state Department of Labor and DPHHS and will involve many more state agencies.
Economic/Workforce Development, Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Create jobs building roads and bridges, pipelines, transmission lines and improving school efficiency--using money from the federal stimulus package.
-- Assist with college expenses, using money from the federal stimulus package.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Freeze the wages of state employees. State employees have agreed to this.
Finance, Finance--Taxes/Revenues, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Will not increase property tax revenues.
-- Support HB 388, a bill to impose a surcharge on oil and gas production to fund higher teacher salaries in the state. For more information on HB 388, please go to: http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2009/billpdf/HB0388.pdf
http://governor.mt.gov/docs/SotSOutline_FINAL.pdf | | |
| North Carolina | Governor Bev Perdue's State of the State Address
Access, Financial Aid, Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Begin the College Promise program to remove financial barriers for access to higher education.
Access, Distance Learning/Virtual University, High School, Teaching Quality, Technology, Technology--Access/Equity
-- Use technology to modernize the classroom and enable teaching to catch up with the way our kids live.
-- Continue to support North Carolina's Virtual Public High School--levels the education playing field for students and assures educational equity.
Accountability, Business Involvement, High School, High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates, Parent/Family, Persistence/Retention, Public Involvement, School, Students, Student Achievement, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes
-- Hold schools accountable.
-- Will not give any child permission to drop out of school.
-- Will not give any teacher permission to give up on a student.
-- Will not give any parent a free pass from their responsibility to be fully involved in their child's education.
-- Will not give any segment of our community, particularly our business community, a free pass on education. These leaders need to put the same effort into helping North Carolina be the home of the nation's best educated workforce.
Accountability, Governance, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Reorganized (earlier this year) the public school system with Bill Harrison becoming both the CEO of the State Board of Education and of the Department of Public Instruction.
Adult Learning/Continuing Education, Economic/Workforce Development
-- Create jobs and provide ways for those who are out of work to learn new skills.
-- Put people back to work building bridges, paving roads, and expanding and renovating our infrastructure.
-- Transform our traditional industries into 21st century jobs.
Adult Learning/Continuing Education, Economic/Workforce Development
-- Create jobs and provide ways for those who are out of work to learn new skills.
-- Put people back to work building bridges, paving roads, and expanding and renovating our infrastructure.
-- Transform our traditional industries into 21st century jobs.
Assessment, Standards--State
-- Eliminating duplicative or unnecessary state tests.
Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development, Postsecondary
-- Become a Mecca for biotech, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences by bringing together government, higher education and private business.
Career/Technical Education, Community Colleges, Early Learning, P-16, Postsecondary, Pre-Kindergarten,
-- Create a pathway, starting in pre-kindergarten that offers courses of study that fit students' needs -- all the way through vocational, community college, or college. Seamless learning, pre-K through 20, that's the goal.
Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Ensure the recovery dollars are spent with maximum efficiency, transparency, and accountability.
-- Created the Office of Economic Recovery & Investment to track every dollar. Taxpayers can go to www.NCRecovery.gov to see how the money is spent.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Pay our state's bills.
-- Confront the $3 billion plus shortfall and make hard, painful decisions to balance the budget.
-- Propose to reduce and cut state government programs and services that are effective but which we cannot afford.
Finance, Finance--Funding Formulas, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Will not sacrifice education--it is the priority.
-- Increase per-pupil spending.
Health, Persistence/Retention
-- Keep all our kids healthy and in school.
http://www.governor.state.nc.us/stateofstate.aspx | | |
| Ohio | Governor Ted Strickland's State of the State Address
Accountability, Public Involvement, School Districts, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Establish a new level of school district accountability and transparency.
-- Establish performance audits for school districts overseen by the Department of Education--to make sure they are maintaining academic and operating standards.
-- Require districts to report their spending plans before each school year and then account for every dollar at the conclusion of the school year.
-- Provide parents, public officials, and taxpayers an annual fiscal and operational report card for every school district. When we send districts funding to help students who need additional attention and instruction, we will now be able to track our dollars to see that they directly reach those students.
-- Establish a process for districts who fail to comply with the new standards. Upon a certain level of non-compliance, the State Board of Education will revoke the school district's charter.
Accountability, Charter Schools
-- Establish a new level of accountability in charter schools. Charter schools should meet the same standards demanded of traditional public schools.
Arts in Education, Language Arts--Writing/Spelling, Mathematics, Science, Student Achievement, Technology
-- Create new academic achievement competitions and awards.
-- Create the Ohio Academic Olympics, where students will compete in science, math, writing, debate, the arts and technology.
Assessment, Assessment--College Entrance Exams, Assessment--National Tests, High School, High School--Exit Exams, High School--Grad Requirements, Service Learning/Community Service,
-- Replace the Ohio Graduation Test with the ACT and three additional measures. All students will: (1) take the ACT college entrance examination; (2) take statewide 'end of course' exams; (3) complete a service learning project; and (4) submit a senior project.
Assessment, Elementary Education, Middle School
-- Rewrite assessments in grades 3 through 8 to test for mastery of the information and skills in the curriculum.
At-Risk, High School, High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates
-- Provide enhanced intervention services in schools with high dropout rates, by building on our 'Closing the Achievement Gap' initiative.
Character Education, Citizenship Education, Comprehensive School Reform, Curriculum, Education Research, Service Learning/Community Service, Social & Emotional Development, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Student Achievement, Teaching Quality
-- Introduce my plan to rebuild our education system--using an evidence-based education approach that applies research findings to Ohio's specific circumstances. [note: this plan encompasses many of the initiatives throughout this summary]
-- Add new subjects including global awareness and life skills to the curriculum.
-- Use teaching methods that foster creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, communication and collaboration, media literacy, leadership and productivity, cultural awareness, adaptability and accountability.
-- Direct the Ohio Department of Education to set standards for Ohio schools requiring innovative teaching formats.
-- Make interdisciplinary methods, project-based learning, real world lessons, and service learning the norm.
-- Build the learning experience around the individual student.
-- Provide dedicated resources for instructional materials and enrichment activities.
Community Colleges, Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Maintain commitment to affordable access to our colleges and universities.
-- Maintain tuition freeze for the next two years.
Early Learning, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Unite all of our early childhood development programs and resources into the Department of Education. This comprehensive early childhood system will focus on the whole child and provide quality early learning and care while improving our efficiency and effectiveness.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Renew the Technology Investment Tax Credit to attract investors for new Ohio start-up technology companies.
-- Broaden the Job Retention Tax Credit and Job Creation Tax Credit.
-- Create a Film Tax Credit to spur the growth of the film industry.
-- Create a New Markets Tax Credit based on the existing federal program, to help cities and towns spur investment in downtown multi-use projects.
-- Introduce a second jobs stimulus package in the coming months. The package will include an expansion of Ohio's Third Frontier program, regulatory reform and streamlining measures, and additional investments.
Education Research, International Comparisons, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Create a Center for Creativity and Innovation within the Department of Education--to monitor research and results from across the country and across the world.
Extended Day Programs, Health, Mentoring/Tutoring, Service Learning/Community
-- Expand the learning day for all students with activities such as community service, tutoring, and wellness programs.
Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Reduce spending by 3.2 billion dollars from 2009 planning levels.
-- Reduce a significant number of programs and services; will call for many program reductions of 10 to 20 percent.
-- Ask state employees to endure a financial sacrifice.
-- Balance the budget. Without the infusion of federal resources, we would have had to impose far more substantial cuts to balance our budget.
-- Will not raise taxes.
-- Leverage existing resources and one-time cash transfers.
-- Increase various state agency fees, fines, and penalties.
Finance, Finance--District, Finance--Local Foundations/Funds, Finance--Taxes/Revenues, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Eliminate aspects of our current funding system that are indefensible.
-- Eliminate the practice where the state asks school districts to pay their bills with phantom dollars.
-- Lower the local taxpayer contribution to local schools from 23 to 20 mills. The state will assume responsibility for providing the difference between what those 20 mills raise and the cost of the full range of educational resources our students need according to our evidence-based approach.
-- Provide districts the option of asking voters to pass a conversion levy.
Financial Aid, Postsecondary, Teaching Quality--Hard-to-Staff Schools
-- Provide scholarships for future teachers who agree to teach in hard to staff schools or in hard to staff subjects.
Governance, Leadership, Standards
-- Strengthen our licensing standards for school principals.
-- Give principals the ability and responsibility to properly manage their schools.
-- Create standards for the mastery of both education and management principles for school superintendents, school treasurers and other business officials.
Health
-- Place nurses in our schools.
Kindergarten
-- Require universal all-day kindergarten.
Outreach Programs, Parent/Family, Public Involvement
-- Create community engagement teams in our schools.
-- Place professionals in the schools who will help educators, families and community service providers come together to help our children succeed.
P-16
-- Continue to support a comprehensive P through 16 system.
Postsecondary, Teaching Quality--Preparation--Professional Development Schools
-- Redesign university teacher education programs to meet the needs and standards of our primary and secondary schools. Empower the Chancellor of Higher Education to reward university education programs that best prepare their students for success as teachers in Ohio.
Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Continue tuition freeze tuition in 2010, and keep any tuition increase to no more than 3.5 percent in 2011 (main university campuses).
Scheduling/School Calendar
-- Add 20 instructional days to the school calendar, over a ten-year period in order to bring the state's learning year up to the international average of 200 days.
State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Call on all state agencies to make government services simpler, faster, better and less costly.
Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Certification, Teaching Quality--Induction and Mentoring, Teaching Quality--Preparation, Teaching Quality--Preparation--Professional Development Schools, Teaching Quality--Professional Development, Teaching Quality--Working Conditions
-- Improve educator quality.
-- Introduce a four-year residency program to advance teacher preparation and development. Under the program, new teachers will be guided by an accomplished senior teacher and successful candidates will earn their professional teaching license.
-- Introduce a career ladder that begins with residency and may build up to lead teacher. This allows teachers the opportunity to advance their careers based on objective evidence of student progress.
-- Provide collaborative planning time.
-- Make mentoring, coaching and peer review standard.
-- Have the Chancellor of Higher Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction collaborate to provide professional development programs and innovative techniques for the classroom.
-- Give administrators the power to dismiss teachers for good cause, the same standard applied to other public employees.
-- Create a Teach Ohio program to open a path to licensure for professionals who have the subject knowledge but lack coursework in education methods. Successful participants will be eligible to begin the four-year residency program.
http://www.governor.ohio.gov/GovernorsOffice/StateoftheState/StateoftheState2009/tabid/984/Default.aspx | | |
| Pennsylvania | Governor Ed Rendell's State of the State Address
Accountability, Governance, Leadership, School Districts, Student Achievement
-- Adopt laws holding superintendents and principals accountable for boosting student achievement.
-- Adopt laws requiring fundamental change when schools or districts fail to improve year after year.
-- Direct school boards to focus their time to guide district improvement.
Adult Learning/Continuing Education, Community Colleges, Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Postsecondary
-- Hold state institutions of higher learning to the same levels of funding that they currently receive.
-- Increase funds for community colleges--which serve as the training ground for Pennsylvanians seeking new skills to help them re-enter the job market.
Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development
-- Put citizens back to work through continued infrastructure investments.
-- Provide $27 million to ensure job-creating opportunities from projects such as the CSX and Norfolk Southern rail freight expansion.
-- Expand the Business in our Sites program by $60 million.
-- Create a $100 million working capital loan guarantee program and increase the funds available to water and other infrastructure improvements needed for business growth by $40 million.
-- Add $10 million to the Infrastructure and Facilities Improvement Program to help businesses grow.
-- Urge legislature to pass amendments to the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards, which will stimulate job growth.
Community Colleges, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Financial Aid, Tuition/Fees
-- Provide $35 million in funds to restore the PHEAA education grant cutbacks.
-- Provide a $15 million increase in funding for enrollment at community colleges across the state. This will make it possible for 10,000 more students to receive grants to study in state community colleges next fall.
-- Introduce the Pennsylvania Tuition Relief Act, which will provide critically needed college tuition assistance to Pennsylvania families earning less than $100,000 a year. Under this Act, all students who qualify and seek to attend public or community colleges will pay what they can afford (at least $1,000 per year) in accordance with established financial aid practices.
-- Enact legislation to legalize video poker and tax its proceeds--to pay for the tuition relief described above.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Postsecondary
-- Believe that investing in higher education is the single most important thing we can do to grow the economy in the long run.
Faculty, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Urge the legislature to pass legislation to consolidate health care benefits for all school employees in the state.
-- Freeze wages for state positions where possible and stop salary increases for this year and next.
Finance, Finance--Facilities, Finance--Resource Efficiency, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Enact a Pennsylvania Green Building Code.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Unions/Collective Bargaining
-- Face a current projected budget deficit of $2.3 billion. However, Pennsylvania is in a far better position than most.
-- Hold counties at level funding.
-- Allow counties to impose a sales tax increase of up to one percent on top of the state sales tax and share 50% of those proceeds with cities.
-- Will not increase taxes on personal income, sales or businesses.
-- Propose a tax on smokeless tobacco.
-- Propose a tax on the minerals under state soil when extracted.
-- Need to tap some of our Rainy Day reserves to help close our deficit this year and next.
-- Cut current-year legislative spending by 4.25% (executive branch has already made these cuts).
-- Welcome any revenue enhancement proposals by any member of the legislature.
-- Decrease General Fund expenditures by 2%.
-- Cut $395 million in spending by completely eliminating 20 percent of the 500 line items under the control of the Executive Branch. In some cases we are cutting terrific programs that we can perhaps restore when the economy recovers, such as the Governor's Schools of Excellence, a week-long series of academic enrichment forums offered by the Department of Education to students from all over the state.
-- Cut the Scotland School permanently. This school was founded so that the orphans of the Civil War could receive a free public school education, however none of the current students in the school are orphans of veterans, and only seven have parents who are currently deployed.
-- Continue negotiating with leaders of our state unions to reach agreement on ways to meet our fiscal challenges with the lowest possible number of layoffs.
-- Accelerate local community mergers where it makes sense to do so (as recommended by the State Planning Board).
-- Provide $300 million to help contain local property tax increases and pay for public school activities that have proven effective in the last six years. If the American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes temporary support for schools, we should put this $300 million into a lockbox so that when the federal funds expire in two years we can ensure that our school districts continue on the path toward full adequacy funding.
Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Postsecondary
-- Double state capital investment in projects at the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
-- Continue our annual commitment of $100 million in funding for important campus projects at the University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University, Lincoln University, and Temple University.
Governance, School Districts
-- Establish funds for the creation of a legislative commission to study how best to right-size our local school districts. The commission should reporting back, within one year, a set of recommendations for the legislature's approval that sets forth an optimal number of local districts and a plan with specific timelines for adjusting our boundaries to meet the optimal size. Full-scale school consolidation provides an effective way to relieve the local property tax burden all across the state. I challenge the commission to develop a plan that includes no more than 100 local districts statewide.
http://www.governor.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_24980_2985_368304_43/http%3B/pubcontent.state.pa.us/publishedcontent/publish/cop_general_government_operations/pagov/media/latest_news/09_2010_final_budget_address.pdf | | |
| Texas | Governor Rick Perry's State of the State Address
Access, Finance (Postsecondary), Financial Aid, Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Make college accessible and affordable for more qualified, motivated students.
-- Increase funding for the Texas Grant Program, an initiative for traditionally underserved Texans.
-- Freeze a student's college tuition rates for four years at the level they pay as an entering freshman.
-- Extend in-state tuition rates to all veterans, regardless of their home of record.
Accountability, At-Risk, Student Achievement, High School, High School--Career Pathways, Minority/Diversity Issues, Public Involvement, Postsecondary
-- Hold schools accountable for student performance.
-- Make sure the accountability system continues to move students (especially low-income and minority students) along the path to graduating "college and career ready" while keeping parents and taxpayers informed on their district's performance.
Adult Learning/Continuing Education, Community Colleges, Economic/Workforce Development, Postsecondary
-- Increase significantly our investment in community colleges. Community colleges are anchors to their local communities and are ideally positioned to educate a growing population of workers that have either been displaced by the current economic turmoil, or have job skills that have been outpaced by rapidly-evolving technology.
-- Expand the Workforce Commission's Skills Development Fund and its training partnerships.
Bilingual/ESL, High School, Language Arts, Mathematics, Reading/Literacy, Science
-- Reach our goal of ensuring every student graduates from Texas high schools with a strong foundation in math, science and English.
Community Colleges, Postsecondary, Private Colleges/Universities
-- Improve education at every level.
-- Include community colleges and proprietary schools in any discussion of higher education.
Completion/Postsec. Graduation, Postsecondary
-- Reward four-year universities that increase the number of students they graduate.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Win jobs for Texans. A buyer's market for economic development is emerging and Texas is in better shape during this economic crisis than most other states.
-- Replenish the Emerging Technology Fund, the Film Incentives and the Enterprise Fund, to keep drawing ideas, investment and jobs to Texas.
-- Invest in adult stem cell research, which will create jobs.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Improve the reformed business tax implemented a few years ago.
-- Raise the small business exemption to $1 million.
-- Hold the line on taxes and regulatory encroachments, as more people move into the state.
-- Upgrade the state's overburdened infrastructure.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Reduce the number of diversions in our budget--only spend tax dollars on the express purpose for which they were collected.
Health
-- Address obesity in schoolchildren. I propose we test an incentive-based fitness program like those gaining popularity in the workplace.
Mathematics, Science
-- Improve math and science education.
Postsecondary
-- Call for additional transparency in institutions of higher education.
Safety/Student Discipline
-- Provide just under $32 million to address the gang threat head-on. These funds would be used to pay more officers, provide better coordination of multi-force efforts and fund prosecutions for gang-related offenses. Transnational gangs have been moving into our towns, schools and neighborhoods.
School Districts, Technology, Technology--Instruction, Textbooks
-- Help schools benefit from evolving educational technologies, by updating our laws and regulations. For example, allow school districts to purchase electronic versions of the text books that have been approved by the State Board of Education.
Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Put an excellent teacher in every classroom.
-- Continue the teacher incentive pay program.
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/11852/ | | |
| Washington | Governor Christine Gregoire's State of the State Address
Economic/Workforce Development, Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance--Facilities
-- Create new jobs by rebuilding roads and schools, and creating a green economy for the 21st century — all in partnership with President-elect Barack Obama's "American Recovery and Reinvestment" plan.
-- Accelerate nearly $1 billion in public works projects to quickly create thousands of new jobs.
-- Introduce the "Washington Jobs Now" plan, which, in combination with the 1,400 transportation projects currently under way or about to start (worth $3 billion), will provide nearly 20,000 jobs over the next two years.
-- Work with legislators and others to create an economic recovery plan that will quickly pass the legislature.
Accountability, Business Involvement, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary, Public Involvement, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Reform state government to bring it into the 21st century. For example, I've asked Auditor Sonntag to examine ways to sunset some of state's 470 boards and commissions.
-- Partner with business and labor, state employees, and citizens to reform state government.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Propose difficult budget cuts. I don't like this budget, but I proposed it because I must.
-- Tighten the belt of government, balance the budget and focus on basic needs — protection of our children, our schools and colleges, our public safety, our environment and our economy.
Economic/Workforce Development, Mathematics, Postsecondary, Science, Technology
-- Preserve our education system to make sure we provide workers skilled in science, math, engineering and technology.
Community Colleges, Distance Learning/Virtual University, Postsecondary, Technology
-- Support the 18,000 full-time students at state community and technical colleges that are earning course credits online. It would take an additional four community colleges to offer all those classes the old-fashioned way.
http://www.governor.wa.gov/speeches/speech-view.asp?SpeechSeq=203 | | |
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| Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Education Research |
| 1 | |
| Equity |
| 1 | |
| Federal |
| 15 | |
| Finance |
| 48 | |
| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
| 2 | |
| Finance--Bonds |
| 2 | |
| Finance--District |
| 3 | |
| Finance--Facilities |
| 12 | |
| Finance--Federal |
| 14 | |
| Finance--Funding Formulas |
| 12 | |
| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
| 1 | |
| Finance--Lotteries |
| 5 | |
| Finance--Performance Funding |
| 2 | |
| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
| 12 | |
| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
| 45 | |
| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
| 20 | |
| Governance |
| 10 | |
| Governance--School Boards |
| 4 | |
| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
| 28 | |
| Health |
| 10 | |
| Health--Mental Health |
| 1 | |
| Health--Nutrition |
| 4 | |
| High School |
| 13 | |
| High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
| 9 | |
| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
| 1 | |
| High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
| 1 | |
| High School--Exit Exams |
| 1 | |
| High School--Graduation Requirements |
| 2 | |
| International Benchmarking |
| 1 | |
| Leadership |
| 8 | |
| Mentoring/Tutoring |
| 2 | |
| Middle School |
| 1 | |
| Minority/Diversity Issues |
| 2 | |
| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
| 4 | |
| P-16 or P-20 |
| 3 | |
| P-3 |
| 15 | |
| P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
| 1 | |
| P-3 Family Involvement |
| 1 | |
| P-3 Finance |
| 5 | |
| P-3 Grades 1-3 |
| 5 | |
| P-3 Kindergarten |
| 6 | |
| P-3 Preschool |
| 4 | |
| P-3 Public/Private Partnerships |
| 1 | |
| Parent/Family |
| 7 | |
| Postsecondary |
| 40 | |
| Postsecondary Accountability |
| 1 | |
| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
| 17 | |
| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
| 22 | |
| Postsecondary Faculty |
| 5 | |
| Postsecondary Finance |
| 25 | |
| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
| 1 | |
| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
| 16 | |
| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
| 2 | |
| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
| 4 | |
| Postsecondary Participation--Enrollments (Statistics) |
| 1 | |
| Postsecondary Students--Adults |
| 10 | |
| Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
| 2 | |
| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
| 4 | |
| Promotion/Retention |
| 1 | |
| Public Involvement |
| 5 | |
| Reading/Literacy |
| 2 | |
| Rural |
| 4 | |
| Scheduling/School Calendar |
| 3 | |
| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
| 3 | |
| Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
| 2 | |
| School Safety |
| 4 | |
| School/District Structure/Operations |
| 10 | |
| School/District Structure/Operations--School Size |
| 1 | |
| Service-Learning |
| 1 | |
| Social/Emotional Learning and Non-Cognitive Skills |
| 2 | |
| Special Education |
| 3 | |
| Special Populations--Foster Care |
| 3 | |
| Standards |
| 4 | |
| State Policymaking |
| 2 | |
| STEM |
| 1 | |
| Student Achievement |
| 13 | |
| Students |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality |
| 18 | |
| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
| 25 | |
| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
| 2 | |
| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
| 3 | |
| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
| 3 | |
| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
| 5 | |
| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
| 3 | |
| Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
| 4 | |
| Teaching Quality--Working Conditions |
| 3 | |
| Technology |
| 13 | |
| Technology--Computer Skills |
| 2 | |
| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
| 3 | |
| Technology--Equitable Access |
| 1 | |
| Textbooks and Open Source |
| 1 | |
| Urban |
| 2 | |
| Whole-School Reform Models |
| 1 | |
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| 799 | |
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