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| Montana | Montana Governor Steve Bullock's 2013 State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- Return the profits from the Lottery to the public schools they were intended to support.
Finance - Investing in Facilities
-- Enact the J.O.B.S. Bill, which stands for Jobs and Opportunity by Building Schools - Take advantage of historically low interest rates and immediately create thousands by making investments in educational facilities.
High School and Dual Enrollment
-- Commit additional funding for the Jobs for Montana's Graduates program. The graduation rate for at-risk teens involved in this program is 98%.
-- Help the two-year colleges expand and enhance dual credit programs for high school students.
Postsecondary Access
-- Create a universal enrollment system.
-- Freeze tuition across the university system.
-- Invest in the university system and make certain that veterans are provided with the services and the space they need including wrap- around services that will reintegrate the veterans back into civilian life and on college campuses.
Postsecondary Completion
-- Increase the number of Montana adults with a post-secondary degree or professional certificate to at least 60% over the next decade.
P-3
-- Expand the proven "Stars to Quality Program." Create 100 more high-quality early childhood programs and get 600 more families and 1,000 more children ready for school, annually.
Technology
-- Use state resources to help school districts modernize and acquire technology.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Student Achievement
-- Montana 8th graders outperform every other state in the nation in reading and math, and are second in science.
-- High School graduation rates are up and dropout rates are down.
-- Increased the rate at which Montana residents are getting college degrees - faster than any other state in the nation.
Full Text: http://governor.mt.gov/docs/STATE_OF_THE_STATE-media_release_013013.pdf
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| Vermont | Governor Peter Shumlin's Second Inaugural Address
PROPOSALS
Career Readiness
-- Focus the education of children - from grade school through college - on career readiness.
-- Encourage schools to develop Personal Learning Plans that travel with each student from elementary through their senior year. These plans would help guide each student's education and also tie educational goals to career opportunities, making school more relevant. The key to this proposal is to increase our students' individual options while fostering a connection between school and career.
Health, At-Risk Students
--Cover the shortfall left by the federal government, and makes free lunch available for all low-income students, including those who are currently only eligible for reduced prices. Whenever possible, these lunches should be made from local Vermont farm grown food, since we know that Vermont farmers grow the healthiest food in the nation.
Mathematics
-- Require that all 9th graders take algebra and all 10th graders take geometry.
Dual Enrollment and Early College
-- Over the past five years, state funding has provided limited access to Vermont high school students to get a head start on gaining expensive college credit by enrolling in for-credit college courses while they are in high school. Doubling the funding to expand access to all Vermont students.
-- Authorize an early college initiative aimed at expanding (from 40) the number of students who simultaneously complete their senior year of high school with their first year of college.
P-3
-- Strengthen commitment to funding universal early childhood education.
-- Make the largest single investment in early childhood education in Vermont's history. Redirect $17 million from the state's Earned Income Tax Credit to make high quality childcare affordable to hardworking lower-income Vermonters.
-- Ensure financial support to communities that initiate publicly funded preschool programs where they do not now exist. Provide resources for first year start up costs, after which communities offering pre-school programs will be eligible for reimbursement through the education fund.
-- Invite all early childhood stakeholders to a summit to build and embrace our vision for the success of our children and their families.
-- Direct the Agency of Human Services to implement an integrated plan for health promotion and prevention, beginning before birth, to ensure that all children reach their full potential.
-- Do more to ensure that all our children are healthy and prepared to learn by providing pediatric, psychological, dental, nutrition and pre-school services on site.
Postsecondary Participation and Economic Development
-- Address affordability with new vigor, particularly for those students who pursue degrees in the disciplines of the new economy.
-- Initiate the Vermont Strong Scholars Program. It's a simple program, and here's how it works: if you enroll in any public institution of higher education in the state of Vermont and graduate with a degree in a STEM field, we will give you a helping hand to stay and work in Vermont by paying you back, over the course of five years, for your final year of tuition. Or if you graduate with an Associate's Degree in a STEM field, we will pay you back over three years for your final semester of tuition.
-- Increase the state's appropriation for the Vermont State Colleges, VSAC, and UVM by three percent, to be used entirely for financial aid and scholarships for Vermonters.
-- Identify savings to guarantee affordability for students and their families and the survival of UVM and our State Colleges.
-- Implement the eleven recommendations of the group I appointed last year to find ways to strengthen UVM and the State Colleges.
-- Utilize the 17 career and technical education centers around the state that provide opportunities for students and adults who need to update skills to advance their earning power. Use the centers as the foundation for Vermont Innovation Zones throughout the state. Our current funding system does not encourage centers to match the needs of regional employers. These Innovation Zones will focus on areas of education and professional opportunity that fit the needs of their region. high schools and tech centers in the Kingdom would become an Innovation Zone and would be able to shift current generic course requirements to focus on those that provide the training the region needs. For example, the Kingdom may choose to focus heavily on engineering, hospitality, and health care courses that would result in Kingdom jobs for Kingdom kids.
Business Involvement
--Call on employers to engage with the educational system at all levels. Open your businesses to our schools. Let our students interact with your employees, so they can see how they use their education every day. Invite teachers and guidance councilors in to experience a deeper understanding of what their students need to succeed. Engage high school and college interns. And provide opportunities for your employees to go back and further their education.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Finance |
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