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 | Accountability |
| 7 | |
| Accountability--Reporting Results |
| 3 | |
| Accountability--Rewards |
| 2 | |
| Accountability--School Improvement |
| 3 | |
| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
| 1 | |
 | At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
| 6 | |
| Delaware | Governor Jack Markell's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Develop a Delaware Skills Bank – an inventory of essential tasks for in-demand occupations in the state – and use it to ensure that training programs provide workers with the right opportunities. Once workers have completed the training they need to fill in-demand jobs, make sure that employers know it, by providing these workers with a Career Readiness Certificate that employers respect and trust.
Dropout Prevention
Implement the Youth ChalleNGe program supported by the Delaware National Guard. This is a residential program for a couple dozen Delaware high school dropouts. Through education and mentoring from Guard members, the program targets young people who can get back on a path to a degree and a rewarding life and career. And because Maryland has all of the necessary facilities and because the Department of Defense picks up 75 percent of the cost, this is a very cost-effective way to serve these young people.
Health
-- Increase ten-fold the number of trained, front line mental health personnel in our middle schools.
P-3
-- On track to increase from 20 to 80 the percentage of high need children in child care enrolled in quality-rated early learning programs.
School Choice
-- Create a best-in-class information system on Delaware's schools that provides a clear picture of the different strengths in each school.
-- Give parents the option of a common application to make it easier to apply to multiple schools.
Teacher Compensation
-- Re-examine that pay structure in order to incentivize teaching in high-need schools and critical subjects, raise starting teacher pay, and reward teacher leadership.
Teacher Preparation
-- Strengthen the standards for entry into the teaching profession.
-- Introduce rigorous exit assessment for our preparation programs, which includes demonstration of content knowledge as well as teaching skills.
Teacher Retention
-- Create a Teacher Leaders role which will keep excelling teachers in the classroom by encouraging them to be role models in their schools, and earn more for putting their experience to work in the classroom.
Youth Engagement
-- Provide more opportunities for after-school and summer activities that get kids off the streets and give them exposure to the arts, nature, and physical activity and ensure the staff running these activities receive training in suicide prevention.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Health - Suicide Prevention
-- Funded new training for front line school personnel in Kent and Sussex Counties to recognize early signs of trauma in children, and we worked together with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to offer the highest-quality training to all of our high schools in detection and prevention of depression in teenagers.
Student Achievement/Graduation Rates
-- Moved thousands of students from below or average to higher levels of achievement.
-- Steadily improved graduation rates.
-- Increased number of high school students taking advanced coursework.
Curriculum - Foreign Language
-- Started 340 students in a world language immersion program. Ten thousand Delaware students will participate in the program over the next decade.
Full Text: http://governor.delaware.gov/speeches/2013stateofthestate/2013_sots_address.shtml
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| Indiana | Governor Michael R. Pence's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
P-3 - Full-day kindergarten
-- Increase funding for full day kindergarten.
Pensions
-- Fully fund teacher pensions each of the next two years.
Postsecondary/Workforce Development
-- Create a partnership with Indiana's life sciences industry and the universities, to spur research and produce high-paying jobs.
Finance/Accountability
-- Increase in funding for schools each of the next two years, with the second year based on school performance.
Teacher Pay-for-Performance
-- Invest $6 million in teacher excellence grants to increase pay for our high-performing teachers.
Reading/Literacy
-- Ensure that every third grader can read,
Dropout Prevention
-- Invest in highly successful dropout prevention programs like Jobs for America's Graduates.
P-3 - Preschool
-- Continue to expand educational opportunities, especially for those with the fewest resources, beginning with pre-K education. Expand incentives for Hoosiers to support innovative, community-driven pre-K effort for low-income children.
School Choice
-- Expand tuition tax deductions, removing the prior year requirement and lift means testing for foster, adopted, special needs and military families.
Postsecondary - Performance Funding
-- Increase funding to our state-sponsored colleges and universities and tie funding and financial aid to on-time completion.
Career/Technical
-- Make career, technical and vocational education a priority in every high school in Indiana.
-- Create Regional Works Councils to work with business and educators across the state to develop regional, demand-driven curricula to bring high-paying career options to more Hoosiers in high school.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Accountability
-- 207 schools received the highest school ranking for the first time. Forty-three schools moved up three letter grades. Twenty-eight schools moved from the lowest ranking to a mid-ranking.
Full Text: http://www.in.gov/gov/2013stateofstate.htm
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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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| Nevada | Governor Brian Sandoval's 2013 State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Choice
-- Provide more choice of schools by giving businesses a tax credit for making contributions to a scholarship fund (an opportunity scholarship). These dollars will be distributed, on a means-tested basis, to students at low-performing schools for use in attending the school of their choice.
English Language Learners
-- Invest $14 million in an English Language Learners initiative.
Finance
-- Provide more support for autism and early intervention services
-- Overall, make a new investment of $135 million in Nevada's schoolchildren.
P-3
-- For pre-Three students, increase funding for early education in the state's most at risk schools.
-- Aggressively expand all-day kindergarten among the state's most at-risk schools
-- Allocate 20 million dollars over the biennium for this purpose.
High School
-- Fund the JAG program (Jobs for America's Graduates) to include up to 50 additional high schools by 2014 and to serve nearly 2,000 additional high school
students.
State Longitudinal Data System
-- Fund a data system that links student performance to teacher effectiveness. This system is a long term investment in what will be the backbone of our approach to teacher evaluation.
Teaching Quality
-- Make a new investment in Teach for America to help recruit, train, develop, and place top teacher and leadership talent in Nevada.
Postsecondary
-- With the Chancellor's support, create new courses of study at UNR and UNLV focused specifically on the sectors targeted for economic growth
-- Establish UNLV as the global intellectual hub for gaming, hospitality and entertainment
-- Pair community colleges more closely with workforce needs so that they can deliver students into jobs that will be waiting for them in the new economy
-- Support and extend the Kenny C. Guinn Millennium Scholarship through 2017
-- Financially support the University Cooperative Extension program in rural Nevada.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Governance
-- Reinvigorated the State Board of Education.
Teaching Quality
-- Required performance-based evaluations for teachers -- ending teacher tenure as we know it.
Full text: http://gov.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/govnvgov/Content/2013StateOfTheState.pdf
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| Utah | Governor Gary R. Herbert's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- Continue to fully invest in the growing schools
STEM
-- Invest $20 million for STEM education. Eight state institutions of higher learning are reprioritizing their budgets to match that funding dollar for dollar.
Technology
-- Continue to provide our students critical tools like computer adaptive testing and other technologies, across all grade levels and socioeconomic strata.
Teacher Evaluations/Performance Pay
-- Support continued implementation of teacher evaluation and performance pay.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
At-risk Students - Individual Instruction
-- Invested millions in enhanced individualized instruction and help for at-risk children.
Finance
-- Increased per pupil spending.
Postsecondary Finance
-- Invested millions more in higher education, including applied technology colleges.
Student Achievement
-- National average Advanced Placement test score is 2.84. Utah's is 3.1. More than 27,000 students prepare for college through concurrent enrollment, and compared to other states with a high percentage of students taking the ACT, Utah ranks second in test scores.
Teacher Benefits
-- Covered the increased cost of healthcare for teachers.
Full Text: http://www.utah.gov/governor/docs/stateofstate/2013StateoftheStateAddress.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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| Attendance |
| 2 | |
| Bilingual/ESL |
| 1 | |
| Business Involvement |
| 3 | |
| Career/Technical Education |
| 4 | |
| Choice of Schools |
| 4 | |
| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
| 7 | |
| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
| 2 | |
| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
| 1 | |
| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
| 3 | |
| Civic Education |
| 2 | |
| Counseling/Guidance |
| 1 | |
| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
| 1 | |
| Curriculum--Mathematics |
| 1 | |
| Economic/Workforce Development |
| 19 | |
| Finance |
| 24 | |
| Finance--Facilities |
| 3 | |
| Finance--Federal |
| 1 | |
| Finance--Funding Formulas |
| 1 | |
| Finance--Lotteries |
| 1 | |
| Finance--Performance Funding |
| 1 | |
| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
| 6 | |
| 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 |
| 16 | |
| 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 |
| 1 | |
| Reading/Literacy |
| 13 | |
| 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 |
| 5 | |
| 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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| 323 | |