2009 State of the State Addresses Education-Related Proposals by Issue

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. Accountability 9 Accountability--Rewards 1 Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions 1 Accountability--School Improvement 1 Assessment 4 Assessment--College Entrance Exams 1 At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) 8 At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education 1 Bilingual/ESL 2 Business Involvement 19 Career/Technical Education 10 Choice of Schools 2 Choice of Schools--Charter Schools 5 Civic Education--Character Education 1 Class Size 2 Curriculum 5 Curriculum--Arts Education 1 Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language 1 Curriculum--Language Arts 1 Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling 2 Curriculum--Mathematics 13 Curriculum--Science 11 Demographics--Enrollments 1 Economic/Workforce Development 45 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 Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle's State of the State Address Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--Taxes/Revenues, Health, Health--Nutrition, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies --Increase the state's food self-sufficiency. Replacing 10 percent of the food we currently import, would create more than $300 million in economic activity, generate $6 million in taxes, and create 2,300 new jobs. -- Ask state agencies such as schools, prisons and hospitals to take the lead by purchasing locally grown fruits, vegetables, poultry, eggs and meat. Economic/Workforce Development, Technology, Technology--Infrastructure -- Transition to a 21st century communications infrastructure. This will create high-paying jobs and allow the state to advance in the areas of: education, health care diagnosis and treatment, public safety, research and innovation, civic participation, creative media, e-government, and the foundation for overall economic development. Finance, Finance--Resource Efficiency -- Transition to a clean energy economy. Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures -- Cannot afford business as usual. -- Likely need to delay, curtail, or possibly eliminate a number of state projects. Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues -- Reduce or eliminate some current special tax credits, exemptions and deductions. Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Teaching Quality--Compensation -- Ask government employees to accept some reduction in wages and benefits. http://hawaii.gov/gov/initiatives/2009/address Maine Governor John E. Baldacci's State of the State Address Community Colleges, Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary -- Combine the efforts of the Department of Labor, Maine State Housing, the Public Utilities Commission and our universities and community colleges to create a green-collar workforce. -- Propose an advanced technology and engineering campus as part of our redevelopment plans for Brunswick Naval Air Station. The center will bring together the University of Maine and Southern Maine Community College in a joint venture that will support the economic development of the Midcoast while also training students for jobs of the future. This collaboration between the university and community college should be a model for greater cooperation between our institutions of higher learning. Economic/Workforce Development, Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures -- Use federal support to build roads, repair bridges, help people stay well and create jobs. -- Use money to preserve thousands more jobs at our schools. Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures -- Submitted $6.1 billion dollar budget in January--reduces state spending by about $200 million dollars. -- Execute a comprehensive development strategy--help regions identify their best assets and develop plans to build upon them. It's economic development from the ground up, instead of the top down. -- Balance the budget. Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary, School to Work -- Proposed a three-year, $306 million dollar investment to create jobs, strengthen our economy and build our intellectual capacity by supporting higher education and innovation. -- Create a Weatherization Corps of young workers, who will learn important life and job skills right on the job. A joint program between the Department of Labor, Jobs for Maine Graduates, local CAP agencies and Maine Housing will train about 100 students to work on energy related projects. -- Capitalize on new jobs and build the industries of the 21st Century by investing in education, innovation and research and development. -- Realize that success today depends on a college education. -- Propose significant investments in Maine's institutions of higher learning so they can serve more students and make energy efficient improvements that will save money that can be put toward the classroom. Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Graduate/Professional Education -- Propose using $3.5 million dollars in one-time recovery funds to help launch two innovative medical schools that will train the doctors we need in Maine. This will not require building new buildings--Tufts University will partner with Maine Medical Center and the University of Vermont will partner with Eastern Maine Medical Center and the University of Maine. Governance, Leadership, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies -- Continue forward with the reform of K-12 administration and oppose referendum to repeal the state's school consolidation law (requires Maine's 290 school administrative units to be reorganized into about 80 regional units). We must stop wasting money on unnecessary bureaucracies and administrations. Parent/Family, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Technology, Technology--Laptop/Related Initiatives -- Revamp our laptop program for use of the entire family. The Department of Education and the Department of Labor will work to make sure every computer has software preloaded to connect students in seventh through 12th-grade and their families with the services available at our State's CareerCenters. http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=Gov+News&id=69160&v=Article-2006 South Dakota Governor M. Michael Rounds's State of the State Address Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development -- Attain a goal of the 2010 Initiative by doubling visitor spending from $600 million to $1.2 billion by the year 2010. --Continue to approve qualified companies for REDI loans, which in turn will create jobs. Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development, Postsecondary, Science -- Partner with the Board of Regents to renovate and revitalize the science facilities at the state's public universities through a $65 million bonding plan--to assist students and state economic development plans. Federal, Finance, Rural, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Compensation, Teaching Quality--Hard-to-Staff Schools, Teaching Quality--Recruitment/Retention -- Propose $4,000,000 in state funds to increase teacher salaries, pay teachers for additional training, and to help school districts hire teachers they need for their schools. -- Continue participation in the federal INCENTIVESplus program, a $20 million grant over 5 years, to attract teachers to high-need schools, primarily in rural areas. Finance--Resource Efficiency, Postsecondary -- Remove incandescent light bulbs from the state contract, so that lights in state government buildings will be replaced with energy efficient compact fluorescent bulbs. -- Require Energy StarŪ requirements in the specs of all bids for appliances used in state government. -- Require all future state buildings and major renovations to be built to meet LEED Silver rating standards. -- Propose the Energy Conservation Revolving Loan Fund--a low interest revolving loan fund, in that when the money comes back, it can be loaned out again and again 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.  Finance, Financial Aid, Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees -- Expand Opportunity Scholarships by lowering the ACT requirement from 24 to 23 to allow more than 200 more students to qualify. Finance, High School, Postsecondary, Technology, Technology--Laptop/Related Initiatives -- Propose $2,954,000 for year 3 of the Classroom Connections Program, which provides classroom laptops for children. This would provide 4,600 more laptop computers for high school students and 400 more for their teachers--would raise the percentage of state high school students with computer access to 38 percent. -- Migrate the state's six public universities toward a mobile computing environment--so that students are on a path toward using computers for learning in public schools and universities are prepared to accept them.  Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures -- Increase by 2.5 percent the per student allocation for state aid to local schools. -- Give local schools extra money if they have declining enrollments or increasing enrollments. http://www.state.sd.us/governor/ Technology--Equitable Access 1 Textbooks and Open Source 1 Urban 2 Whole-School Reform Models 1 799