2012 State of the State Addresses Education-Related Proposals by Issue

The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2012 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 7 Accountability--Reporting Results 6 Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions 3 Accountability--School Improvement 2 Assessment 4 Assessment--College Entrance Exams 3 Assessment--Formative/Interim 1 At-Risk--Alternative Education 1 Attendance 3 Career/Technical Education 7 Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship 1 Choice of Schools 4 Choice of Schools--Charter Schools 11 Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research 1 Choice of Schools--Vouchers 5 Civic Education--Professional Development 1 Continuous Impr/Performance Mgmt. 2 Continuous Impr/Performance Mgmt.--Promising Practices--Schools 1 Curriculum 1 Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language 1 Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults--Welfare 1 Distance Learning/Virtual University 5 Economic/Workforce Development 12 Economic/Workforce Development--Research 3 Economic/Workforce Development--STEM 6 Economic/Workforce Development--Workforce Demand 3 Federal 1 Finance 24 Finance--Facilities 1 Finance--Federal 2 Finance--Funding Formulas 4 Finance--Resource Efficiency 2 Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures 2 Governance 3 Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule 1 Health--Teen Pregnancy 1 High School 3 High School--Advanced Placement 3 High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates 4 High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment 6 High School--Graduation Requirements 1 High School--International Baccalaureate 1 Instructional Approaches 1 Leadership 1 Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness 2 Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation 1 No Child Left Behind 2 No Child Left Behind--Flexibility 1 P-16 or P-20 1 P-3 Early Care & Intervention 2 P-3 Early Care & Intervention--Child Care 1 P-3 Early Care & Intervention--Health & Mental Health 1 P-3 Early Grades 2 P-3 Early Grades--1-3 1 P-3 Early Grades--Kindergarten 3 P-3 Early Grades--Kindergarten--Full Day 1 P-3 Early Grades--Preschool 7 P-3 Systems 2 P-3 Systems--Ensuring Quality 3 P-3 Systems--Evaluation/Economic Benefits 1 P-3 Systems--Finance 2 P-3 Systems--Governance 3 P-3 Systems--Teaching Quality/Prof. Dev. 1 Postsecondary 1 Postsecondary Accountability--Student Learning 1 Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid 7 Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees 1 Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants 1 Postsecondary Finance 13 Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding 1 Postsecondary Finance--Facilities 3 Postsecondary Governance and Structures 2 Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges 6 Postsecondary Participation--Enrollments (Statistics) 2 Postsecondary Success--Completion 3 Postsecondary Success--Completion--Completion Rates (Statistics) 4 Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation 1 Reading/Literacy 12 Rural 1 Scheduling/School Calendar 3 Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs 1 School Safety 2 School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution 1 School/District Structure/Operations--District Structure 1 School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities 4 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 Illinois Governor Pat Quinn's State of the State Address PROPOSALS P-3 Systems - Finance -- Invest more dollars in early childhood education. Attendance - Compulsory -- Raise the minimum school attendance age to 18. Finance; Facilities -- Invest in education through the Illinois Jobs Agenda for 2012. This investment will create jobs now as classrooms are upgraded with modern labs, smart technology, digital books, high-speed Internet access, and 21st century efficiency. Postsecondary - Financial Aid -- Make a significant investment in more state MAP scholarships to help students attend college. Postsecondary Success - Completion Rates -- Set goal to have at least 60 percent of adults in the state to have a college degree, an associate degree or a career certificate by 2025. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Accountability - Reporting -- Passed laws that improve school report cards so that parents have more information about the schools that educate their kids. Facilities -- Built and renovated more than 400 schools from Western Illinois University's new riverfront campus in Moline to the new Transportation Education Center at SIU in Carbondale and from the repurposed Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb to the new electrical and computer engineering building at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. School Calendar -- Passed laws that lay the groundwork for a longer school day and a longer school year. Teacher Quality - Evaluations; Tenure -- Passed laws that set clear benchmarks for teacher evaluation and put performance above tenure. Postsecondary - Financial Aid; Immigrant Education -- Passed the Illinois DREAM Act to help high school graduates from immigrant families. http://www.illinois.gov/PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=2&RecNum=9997 Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's State of the State Address PROPOSALS Facilities -- Build modern schools. Teacher Quality - Pensions -- Split the responsibility of the pension system 50/50 between state and counties. Teaching Quality - Recruitment and Retention --Create and save 78,000 teaching jobs at public schools across the state. Postsecondary, Community Colleges - Facilities -- Build new facilities at Cecil Community College, Harford Community College and Howard Community College as well as Frostberg State and Morgan State University. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Student Achievement -- Elementary and middle school students achieved their highest ever scores on the Maryland School Assessment (MSA) in reading and middle school students achieved their highest ever scores in math. -- High school students achieved the best AP scores in the nation. -- Rated #1 best school system in nation by Education Week for four years in a row. Facilities -- Built new schools and modern classrooms. High School - Graduation Rates -- High school graduation rates reached an all-time high. Postsecondary - Enrollment -- Enrollment at Maryland's colleges and universities reached an all-time high in Fall 2011. Enrollment in 4-year institutions has grown 21% since 2005. Postsecondary - Finance -- Froze in-state tuition at state colleges and universities four years in a row and held increases to 3% for the last three years. Postsecondary - STEM -- Colleges are graduating 21% more science, technology, engineering and math students (STEM). http://www.governor.maryland.gov/documents/StateOfTheState2012.pdf New Hampshire Governor John Lynch's State of the State Address PROPOSALS Finance - Funding Formula -- Pass a bipartisan constitutional amendment that would eliminate the requirement that the state spend the same base amount for every student in every town and allow us to target state education aid. School Structure - Facilities -- Put in place a reformed building aid program that will establish a building aid budget, prioritize projects, and increase the match available to school districts with the greatest needs. Postsecondary - Finance -- Make it a priority to restore funding for higher education. ACCOMPLISHMENTS P-3 - Kindergarten -- Made kindergarten available to every student in every community in New Hampshire. At-Risk - Alternative Education -- Invested in alternative education programs Attendance - Compulsory --Increased the compulsory attendance age from 16 to 18. Economic/Workforce Development -- Launched New Hampshire Working. This program has already helped avert the layoffs of more than 1,200 workers. It has helped companies hire hundreds of people by allowing up to six weeks of on-the-job training for people collecting unemployment. And this fall, we launched its final component, which is helping unemployed workers assess and upgrade their job skills. Finance -- Increased funding for our public schools Community Colleges -- Partnering with a billion-dollar company to create an advanced composites training program at the Great Bay Community College in order to ensure Albany, NH has the workforce it needs. Postsecondary - Facilities -- Invested in modernizing the facilities at our colleges and universities http://www.governor.nh.gov/media/speeches/documents/013112state.htm School/District Structure/Operations--School Structure--Class Size 1 School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation 1 Special Education 2 Special Populations--Immigrant Education 1 Standards 2 Standards--Common Core State Standards 2 State Policymaking 7 Student Achievement 7 Student Supports--Integrated Services 1 Students--Promotion/Retention 3 Teaching Quality 6 Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure 2 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--Employment--Reduction in Force 1 Teaching Quality--Employment--Tenure or Continuing Contract 10 Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness 16 Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring 1 Teaching Quality--Preparation 3 Teaching Quality--Preparation--Alternative Preparation 1 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 Technology--Instruction 2 Urban--Change/Improvements 1 Youth Engagement 1 359