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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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| 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 | | |
| 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 | | |
| West Virginia | Governor Joe Manchin III's State of the State Address
Assessment, Extended Day Programs, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Language Arts--Writing/Spelling, Mathematics, Parent/Family, Promotion/Retention, Standards, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Student Achievement, Summer School
-- Refocus on basic principles of learning. For dozens of years we have evaluated our children's educational competency at critical grade levels through statewide testing. The data is helpful, but we should use that information to keep our children from being prematurely promoted to the next grade level.
-- Propose, in cooperation with the Department of Education, legislation providing that if our children do not meet the educational standards we set at the third grade and eighth grade levels, they cannot move on until they meet those required educational standards, either through after-school programs, attending summer school or being retained for another year.
This bill also engages the most critical factor in the learning process – the parents. We have directed additional resources to ensure the success of this program and help our children learn the math and language skills they need to succeed at the next grade level.
Curriculum, School Boards, School Districts, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Student Achievement, Teaching Quality
-- Join the State Department of Education in introducing The School Innovation Zones Bill to give teachers, principals and school communities greater control over critical education factors that affect student achievement. This bill will allow school staff to implement improvement strategies that currently are restrained by State Board of Education policies or antiquated state law.
-- Give our teachers and school systems the resources, curriculum and freedom to try innovative approaches to 21st century learning.
Early Learning, Postsecondary
-- Do a better job of educating our children, starting from the ground up--from pre-school through college.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Commit to investing in the energy sources of the future.
-- Introduce the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act which includes incentives to locate new alternative energy facilities in West Virginia--to encourage the development of renewable energy resources and create jobs.
-- Realize that the jobs of the future will go not to the places with the richest land or the most abundant resources, but the places with the richest minds. We must teach our children the job skills they need to compete.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance (Postsecondary), Graduate/Professional Education, Postsecondary, Teaching Quality--Recruitment/Retention, Tuition/Fees
-- Recognize the workforce resource we have in our veterans. They have earned the right to further their education once they return to civilian life.
-- Continue to support the Troops to Teachers program.
-- Make sure our nation's veterans know they are welcome at West Virginia's colleges and universities.
-- Propose legislation that will require each of our public colleges and universities to participate in the New GI Bill's "Yellow Ribbon Program" that will allow veterans from out of state to attend our public colleges and universities at the in-state rates. Schools would be free to participate for graduate and professional students, as well, if they choose.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Do not plan to cut essential government services, unnecessarily increase our state budget, or expand the size of state government.
-- Cannot include any base-building salary increases in this year's budget.
-- Ask the legislature for the ability to share any additional money that we may have with our teachers, service personnel and state employees.
Health, Health--Nutrition
-- Continue to recognize the growing problem of childhood obesity.
-- Recognize that schools must provide healthier food choices in their vending machines.
Scheduling/School Calendar
-- Introduce a bill to require county school systems to begin the instructional term five days earlier and give schools the flexibility to extend the calendar if necessary to meet the 180-day requirement.
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/speech?contentId=376640 | | |
| 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 | |
| Technology--Equitable Access |
| 1 | |
| Textbooks and Open Source |
| 1 | |
| Urban |
| 2 | |
| Whole-School Reform Models |
| 1 | |
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