ECS
2011 State of the State Addresses
Education-Related Proposals by Issue


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The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2011 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
6
+ Accountability--Reporting Results
1
+ Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions
1
+ Accountability--School Improvement
2
+ Assessment
4
+ At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)
1
+ At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education
1
+ Attendance
2
+ Bilingual/ESL
1
+ Business Involvement
5
+ Career/Technical Education
4
+ Choice of Schools
3
+ Choice of Schools--Charter Schools
8
+ Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters
1
+ Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance
1
+ Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment
2
+ Choice of Schools--Tax Credits
2
+ Choice of Schools--Vouchers
2
+ Choice of Schools--Vouchers--Privately Funded
1
+ Class Size
1
+ Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language
1
+ Curriculum--Mathematics
1
+ Curriculum--Science
1
+ Economic/Workforce Development
18
+ Finance
17
+ Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost
1
+ Finance--District
3
+ Finance--Facilities
3
+ Finance--Federal
3
+ Finance--Funding Formulas
3
+ Finance--Resource Efficiency
1
+ Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
13
+ Finance--Taxes/Revenues
2
+ Governance
7
+ Governance--School Boards
2
+ Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
2
+ Health
1
+ High School
7
+ High School--Advanced Placement
3
+ High School--College Readiness
6
+ High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates
2
+ High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment
1
+ High School--Graduation Requirements
2
+ Leadership--District Superintendent
2
+ Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay
1
+ Leadership--Principal/School Leadership
4
+ Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses
2
+ P-16 or P-20
5
+ P-3
5
+ P-3 Grades 1-3
4
+ P-3 Kindergarten
1
+ P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten
3
+ P-3 Preschool
2
+ Parent/Family
1
+ Postsecondary
8
+ Postsecondary Accountability
1
+ Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid
6
+ Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks
1
+ Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees
5
+ Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans
1
+ Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation
1
+ Postsecondary Finance
13
+ Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding
1
+ Postsecondary Institutions
2
+ Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges
3
+ Postsecondary Participation--Access
6
+ Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action
1
+ Postsecondary Students
1
+ Postsecondary Success--Completion
7
+ Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation
1
+ Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation
1
- Privatization
1
South CarolinaGovernor Nikki Haley's State of the State Address

PROPOSALS

Governance
-- Allow the voters to decide if future governors will appoint other cabinet heads like the Superintendent of Education. It is crucial that the Superintendent and Governor partner in priorities, spending, graduation rates, and the workforce we produce. Education is almost 40 percent of our budget – how can we justify having those dollars flow through a completely isolated part of government?

Finance
-- Start with the funding formula. We need to educate our children not based on where they happen to be born and raised, but
on the fact that they deserve a good, quality education, and they are our future workforce.

Privatization
-- Privatize our school bus system. We are one of the last states in the nation to do so, and our government just doesn't need to be in the school bus maintenance business. Making this change would deliver our state a check for our old buses. It would deliver our children a new fleet of buses. It would keep our school bus drivers employed while transferring our mechanics to the private sector. And it would put the focus of our Education Department where it needs to be: teaching our kids.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

N/A. Newly-elected Governor

http://www.governor.sc.gov/news/Documents/state-of-the-state.pdf
+ Promotion/Retention
3
+ Reading/Literacy
2
+ Remediation (K-12)
2
+ Rural
2
+ Scheduling/School Calendar
1
+ Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs
1
+ School Safety
2
+ School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation
2
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities
1
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services
2
+ Special Education
2
+ Special Populations--Military
1
+ Standards
2
+ Standards--Common Core State Standards
1
+ State Policymaking
5
+ STEM
6
+ Student Achievement
8
+ Teaching Quality
6
+ Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay
5
+ Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance
3
+ Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits
5
+ Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness
8
+ Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals
1
+ Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention
1
+ Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract
5
+ Technology
4
+ Technology--Computer Skills
5
+ Technology--Equitable Access
1
+ Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training
1
+ Textbooks and Open Source
1
+ Youth Engagement
1
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