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| Alabama | Governor Robert Bentley's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Choice, Charter Schools
--Create a limited number of charter schools.
District Flexibility
--Propose the School Flexibility Act of 2012, to allow more decision-making at the local level. Allow local school systems to develop their own innovative strategies, free from state or federal bureaucracy.
Finance
--Budget proposal includes protecting
+Alabama Reading Initiative
+ACCESS Distance Learning
+Alabama Math Science and Technology Initiative
+Advanced Placement
+Pre K programs.
Teaching Quality, Leadership
--Ensure that every child's classroom and school is led by a highly effective, professional educator free to use their talents to create a stimulating and innovative learning environment in their own classroom.
--Form a "Teacher Cabinet", made up of teachers, administrators, school board members and parents to provide the administration with unfiltered feedback on the needs of public schools.
Teacher Expenditures on Classroom Supplies
--Propose a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for every teacher who spends their money on their classroom.
Career/Technical Education, Workforce Development
--Propose new investment in Alabama's workforce development and career tech programs.
ACHIEVEMENTS
http://blog.al.com/bn/2012/02/alabama_gov_robert_bentleys_st.html
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| Connecticut | Governor Dannel P. Malloy's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
P-3 - Access, Quality
-- Enhance families' access to early childhood education by creating new seats for 500 children who can't afford preschool. And work to get to universal pre-K access.
-- Investing in a new early childhood education rating system to improve quality.
Accountability - School Improvement
-- Strengthen and expand high-quality school models – whether they are traditional schools, magnet schools, charter schools, or other successful models – and hold them accountable for their results and inclusiveness.
Accountability - Interventions
-- Transform schools with the worst legacies of low achievement. The state will serve as a temporary trustee of schools that lack the capacity to improve themselves. These schools will become part of a Commissioner's Network and they will receive our most intensive interventions and supports.
Finance
-- Spend 128 million dollars to increase funding for education, much of it targeted to the lowest performing districts.
-- Add 50 million to the Education Cost Sharing formula, with the vast majority of that money targeted to the districts serving students with the greatest need.
State Policymaking
-- Remove red tape and barriers to success. The state can streamline its systems – in teacher certification, data collection, and elsewhere – and free districts to innovate and perform.
Teaching Quality
-- Create new career opportunities with a new master teacher certificate so that teachers do not have to leave the classroom to advance in their profession.
Teaching Quality - Teacher Preparation
-- Overhaul teacher preparation programs so that the brightest young people go into teaching and graduate with the skills to succeed.
Teaching Quality - Tenure
-- Reform tenure policies. Tenure will have to be earned and re-earned – earned by meeting certain objective performance standards, including student performance, school performance, and parent and peer reviews. If teachers want to keep that tenure, they will have to continue to prove their effectiveness in the classroom as their career progresses.
Teaching Quality - Pay-for-Performance
-- Allow local school districts, if they choose, to provide career advancement opportunities and financial incentives as a way of rewarding teachers who consistently receive high performance ratings.
Teaching Quality - Professional Development
-- Invest in better on-the-job training, such as one-on-one coaching in the classroom.
-- Provide professional development (responsibility of district) to a teacher that begins to struggle at any point after they've earned tenure
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
-- n/a
http://www.governor.ct.gov/malloy/cwp/view.asp?A=11&Q=498904
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| District of Columbia | Mayor Vincent C. Gray's State of the District Address
PROPOSALS
High School - Graduation Rates
-- Raise graduation rates.
P-3 - Child Care
-- Expand access to universal, high-quality infant and toddler care.
P-3 Systems - Ensuring Quality
-- Test, learn and teach important best practices about early childhood development.
Student Supports - Integrated Services
-- Offer a new resource in our Early Success plan - $12 million, state-of-the-art early childhood Educare Center in the Kenilworth-Parkside Promise neighborhood, which will provide services to 171 children and their families.
Student Achievement
-- Help more students move beyond mere proficiency to advanced levels of achievement.
Workforce Development - Workforce Demand
-- Fundamentally redesign how we approach job training adapted to the needs of the 21st century. It must be data-driven and must equip people with the hard and soft skills necessary to compete for the jobs of tomorrow.
Charter Schools
-- Be a model of how the best public schools can operate in a healthy, virtuous competition with the best public charter schools to spur creativity, learning and achievement that prepares young people to compete in the new economy.
School Structure - Facilities
-- Continue to implement our comprehensive school-modernization plan, rebuilding or renovating our schools.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Special Education
-- Expanded the quality of special education programming, enabling us to serve students closer to home and reduce the number of students attending non-public schools by 20 percent in just the past 11 months.
Student Achievement
-- Seen gains in student performance as measured both by our DC-CAS test and by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
P-3 - Preschool
-- Became the first city in America to offer universal pre-K, and we are now ranked #1 in the nation in pre-kindergarten enrollment.
School Structure - Facilities
-- Opened a new H.D. Woodson High School; renovated Langley School; modernized and expanded facilities at Woodrow Wilson High School, Anacostia High School and Janney Elementary; restored Takoma Education Campus, where we invested $25 million unexpectedly in the aftermath fire in December of 2010; began the modernization of Cardozo High School; and broke ground on a new Dunbar High School. A new Ballou Senior High School and many others will soon follow.
Youth Engagement/Professional Development
-- Engaged over 14,000 youth in the reformed Summer Youth Employment Program last year, teaching them the culture and value of an honest day's work for an honest day's pay.
http://mayor.dc.gov/DC/Mayor/About+the+Mayor/News+Room/Text+of+the+State+of+the+District+Address
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| Georgia | Governor Nathan Deal's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- Appropriate an additional $146.6 million to fully fund enrollment growth in K-12 schools.
-- Put an additional $3.7 million toward funding for school nurses, and move school nurses and the school nutrition program and transportation funding into the Quality Basic Education funding formula. These funds will be allocated using the same formula local districts are accustomed to, but they will have complete flexibility in how to spend them.
-- Appropriate an additional $55.8 million to fund salary increases for teachers based on training and experience.
P-3 and Reading
-- Provide funding for increasing the Pre-K school year for 84,000 students by 10 days, bringing it to 170 days.
-- Make a concerted effort to increase the percentage of children reading at grade level by the completion of 3rd Grade. The best evidence tells us that children not meeting this standard often fail to catch up and are more likely to drop out of school, go to prison and have higher unemployment rates later in life than their reading-proficient peers.
Students must "learn to read" in order to be able to "read to learn" and when we fail to invest in our youngest students, we are forced to spend money on remediation for the remainder of their academic careers.
-- Budget $1.6 million for a reading mentors program. This program will assist schools and teachers as they work to help more young Georgians achieve this strategic benchmark – reading at grade level by the completion of 3rd grade.
Charter Schools and Innovation
-- Put in place strategies that provide students with opportunities to practice and apply what they are learning in a high-quality, real-world environment. This is one reason we allotted nearly $20 million of our Race to the Top money for the creation of an Innovation Fund. This initiative asks schools to partner with businesses, non-profits and postsecondary institutions and places a primary focus on developing applied learning opportunities.
-- To spur innovation, recommend $8.7 million in supplemental grants in both the Amended budget and next year's budget for state chartered special schools affected by the Georgia Supreme Court ruling on charter schools.
-- Develop a plan to ensure that charter schools can thrive in Georgia.
Postsecondary and Job Readiness
-- Clarify the mission of our schools. Students graduating from our high schools … those young men and women who have done everything asked of them by our K-12 system … should be fully ready for postsecondary study or a job! Ensure that there is a more seamless transition from High School to further study … and from postsecondary study to the workforce.
Financial Aid
-- For every student who earned HOPE this year, maintain the same HOPE Scholarship award amount next year.
-- Appropriate $20 million for the needs-based one percent student loan program which eases the burden of affording a college education
Postsecondary and Economic/Workforce Development
-- Ensure that postsecondary institutions maintain an intense focus on employability and creating job opportunities. In today's competitive global environment where technology is constantly reshaping the economy, that means abandoning the "ivory tower" model and adapting to meet the needs of business.
-- Add $111.3 million in funding to address anticipated enrollment growth in both the technical college and university systems.
-- Work together to ensure that Georgia has the craft professionals to meet present and forecast demand. Boost the state's pipeline by launching Go Build, a public-private initiative that will round out the state's workforce development program by educating young people and the public at large about the skilled trades. Already, the business community is unable to fill many positions calling for highly-skilled industrial and commercial construction professionals, jobs that on average pay 27% more than the average Georgian currently brings home.
-- Be a destination for cancer research and a resource for every family battling this disease. Georgians deserve a world-class, public medical university, and it will be a priority of this administration to have a medical college among the top 50 nationally. Within this push, the Georgia Health Sciences University will seek to become the state's second National Cancer Institute designated Cancer Center, alongside the Winship Cancer Center at Emory. Invest $5 million to support this goal of a second Georgia-based Cancer Center. In order to address the need for additional health professionals in Georgia, we have been investing in the expansion of undergraduate medical education for several years. We must now take the next step in this process by funding 400 new residency slots in hospitals across the state.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Finance
-- Restored the Rainy Day Fund. The balance today is $328 million, an increase of 183%.
-- Passed structurally balanced budgets that fund the essential services without raising taxes.
Financial Aid
-- Appropriated $20 million for the needs-based one percent student loan program which eases the burden of affording a college education. Half of the newly-appropriated $20 million funds went to students who had no assistance from their families.
http://gov.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,165937316_165937374_180385525,00.html
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| Michigan | Governor Rick Snyder's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
-- n/a
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Preschool
-- Launched the Office of Great Start to focus on youngest kids.
Teacher Quality - Tenure
-- Reformed teacher tenure.
School Choice
-- Lifted cap on charter schools.
School Safety
-- Passed an anti-bullying law.
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/snyder/011812_OUTLINE_State_of_the_State_2012_final_374006_7.pdf
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| Minnesota | Governor Mark Dayton's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Economic Development
--Enact "Jobs Now" tax credit to encourage businesses to hire unemployed Minnesotans, Veterans, and recent college graduates.
--Expand the Minnesota GI Bill to provide education benefits to all eras of veterans.
Finance
--Repair buildings and upgrade classroom equipment at state colleges and universities via passage of a bonding bill.
State Policymaking
--Develop education initiatives in cooperation with teachers, rather than in conflict with them.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Federal
--Had the state's No Child Left Behind Waiver application approved.
Finance
--Increased the per-pupil aid formula by $50 per student in each year of the biennium.
--Successfully applied for Race to the Top dollars.
P-3 and Early Literacy
--Expanded Early Childhood Education.
--Enacted "Read by Third Grade."
Teaching Quality
--Enacted an Alternative Licensure path for teachers.
--Established evaluation requirements for both teachers and principals.
Full text: http://mn.gov/governor/images/2012_State_of_the_State.pdf
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| Washington | Governor Chris Gregoire's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Accountability
-- Step in and turn around schools where dropout rates are high, student performance and achievement are low, and where no progress is being made.
Teaching Quality - Evaluations
-- Overhaul the way teachers are evaluated by focusing on high-quality instruction, student achievement and growth.
-- Provide a system to evaluate the performance of principals based on student achievement.
Finance
-- Lift the levy lid.
-- Fund levy equalization.
P-3 - Preschool, Kindergarten
-- Continue implementation of all-day kindergarten for all kids.
-- Create "All Start," a voluntary Washington preschool program to provide early learning opportunities to all 3- and 4-year-olds.
Postsecondary - Community/Technical Colleges
-- Provide funding to community and technical colleges to retrain 2,500 workers for the jobs of tomorrow.
Postsecondary - Finance
-- Provide four-year institutions with competitive tuition flexibility.
-- Restore funding for the State Need Grant Program in order to keep the doors to higher education open to students of all income levels.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Student Achievement
-- K-12 student test scores continue to rank high nationally.
School Choice
-- Innovative schools in cities around the state have been highly successful in raising vital math and science skills.
Postsecondary - Community/Technical Colleges
-- Community and technical college system is rated as one of the best in the nation
Teaching Quality
-- Rank fifth in the nation in board-certified educators.
http://www.governor.wa.gov/speeches/speech-view.asp?SpeechSeq=213
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Student Learning |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
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| Postsecondary Finance |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Promising Practices |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Rural |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
| 3 | |
| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
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| School Safety |
| 2 | |
| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
| 4 | |
| School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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| Special Education |
| 2 | |
| Special Populations--Immigrant Education |
| 1 | |
| Standards |
| 2 | |
| Standards--Common Core State Standards |
| 2 | |
| State Policymaking |
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| STEM |
| 6 | |
| Student Achievement |
| 7 | |
| Teaching Quality |
| 6 | |
| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
| 2 | |
| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
| 2 | |
| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
| 6 | |
| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
| 6 | |
| Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
| 16 | |
| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
| 3 | |
| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
| 2 | |
| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
| 2 | |
| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
| 3 | |
| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--High-Needs Subjects |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
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| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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| Technology--Computer Skills |
| 2 | |
| Urban--Change/Improvements |
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| Youth Engagement |
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