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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
| 3 | |
| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
| 1 | |
| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| Attendance |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
| 1 | |
| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Choice of Schools |
| 4 | |
| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| Mississippi | Governor Phil Bryant's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Dropout Prevention
-- Fund national certifications for high school students enrolled in workforce training.
Choice - Charter Schools
-- Pass a charter school act.
Choice - Open Enrollment
-- Implement an open enrollment policy.
Choice - Vouchers
-- Create privately funded Opportunity Scholarships for students who are below 250 percent of the poverty level and live in D
and F schools districts.
P-3 - Best Practices
-- Fund $3 million to help Mississippi Building Blocks continue literacy research and thereby develop best practices in early education.
Postsecondary
-- Build new expansion at University of Mississippi's School of Medicine. With the addition of new classrooms and laboratories, each incoming class of medical students will increase to more than 160.
Reading/Literacy
-- End social promotion of third grade students who cannot read on a third-grade level.
-- Fund $15 million to assist with literacy improvement efforts. These funds will help us train teachers on best-practices in reading instruction and will also help provide reading interventionists to help struggling third-graders and other students.
Teacher Pay-for-Performance
-- Reward best teachers with higher pay.
Teacher Preparation
--Raise the bar for new teachers by raising the entrance standard for education programs. A student must have a 21 ACT score and a minimum GPA of 3.0 to become a teacher. Why would we want anything less for our students?
Teacher Recruitment - Scholarships
-- Fund 200 scholarships for students who have a 28 ACT score, a 3.5 GPA, and who commit to teaching in Mississippi public schools for five years.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
State Policymaking - Task Forces
-- Formed a working group of educators at all levels to identify the core problems in Mississippi's public education system and develop realistic recommendations for improvement.
Full Text: http://www.governorbryant.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/State-of-the-State.pdf
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| New Jersey | Governor Chris Christie's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- Invest $8.9 billion of state aid into education
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Choice
-- Implemented inter-district school choice which has tripled enrollment in the last 3 years and will grow to 6,000 students next year.
-- Expanded the number of charter schools in NJ to 86.
-- Signed the Urban Hope Act to turn failing schools into renaissance Schools in Newark, Trenton, and Camden.
Postsecondary
-- Restructured higher education resulting in Rutgers being in the top 25 in research dollars and the newest member of the Big 10.
-- Made new capital investments in all NJ universities for the first time in 25 years.
State Policymaking - Task Forces
-- Created a task force that has helped NJ develop strategies for making New Jersey's institutions more competitive.
Teacher Issues - Compensation - Merit Pay
-- Finalized a teacher contract in Newark that acknowledges merit-pay.
Teacher Issues - Tenure
-- Reformed teacher tenure.
Full Text: http://nj.gov/governor/news/news/552013/approved/20130108d.html
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Civic Education |
| 2 | |
| Counseling/Guidance |
| 1 | |
| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
| 1 | |
| Curriculum--Mathematics |
| 1 | |
| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Finance |
| 24 | |
| Finance--Facilities |
| 3 | |
| Finance--Federal |
| 1 | |
| Finance--Funding Formulas |
| 1 | |
| Finance--Lotteries |
| 1 | |
| Finance--Performance Funding |
| 1 | |
| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
| 3 | |
| Governance |
| 3 | |
| Health |
| 2 | |
| Health--Mental Health |
| 1 | |
| High School |
| 3 | |
| High School--College Readiness |
| 3 | |
| High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
| 1 | |
| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
| 2 | |
| High School--Exit Exams |
| 1 | |
| High School--Graduation Requirements |
| 1 | |
| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
| 1 | |
| Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
| 3 | |
| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
| 1 | |
| P-16 or P-20 |
| 1 | |
| P-3 |
| 4 | |
| P-3 Child Care |
| 1 | |
| P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
| 1 | |
| P-3 Finance |
| 1 | |
| P-3 Kindergarten |
| 4 | |
| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
| 2 | |
| P-3 Preschool |
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| Parent/Family |
| 1 | |
| Postsecondary |
| 5 | |
| Postsecondary Affordability |
| 5 | |
| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
| 6 | |
| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
| 3 | |
| Postsecondary Finance |
| 12 | |
| Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
| 7 | |
| Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
| 1 | |
| Postsecondary Institutions |
| 1 | |
| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
| 3 | |
| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
| 1 | |
| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
| 3 | |
| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
| 4 | |
| Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
| 2 | |
| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
| 1 | |
| School Safety |
| 9 | |
| Service-Learning |
| 1 | |
| Special Education |
| 4 | |
| Special Populations |
| 1 | |
| Special Populations--Military |
| 3 | |
| Standards |
| 1 | |
| State Longitudinal Data Systems |
| 1 | |
| State Policymaking |
| 6 | |
| State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
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| STEM |
| 5 | |
| Student Achievement |
| 5 | |
| Teaching Quality |
| 5 | |
| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
| 5 | |
| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
| 7 | |
| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
| 3 | |
| Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
| 5 | |
| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
| 3 | |
| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
| 1 | |
| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
| 7 | |
| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
| 3 | |
| Technology |
| 5 | |
| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
| 1 | |
| Youth Engagement |
| 1 | |
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