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 | Accountability |
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 | Accountability--Reporting Results |
| 3 | |
 | Accountability--Rewards |
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 | Accountability--School Improvement |
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 | Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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 | At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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 | Business Involvement |
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 | Career/Technical Education |
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 | Choice of Schools |
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 | Civic Education |
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 | Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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 | Economic/Workforce Development |
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 | Finance |
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 | Finance--Facilities |
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 | Finance--Federal |
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 | Finance--Funding Formulas |
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 | P-3 Finance |
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 | P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
| 2 | |
 | P-3 Preschool |
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 | Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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 | Student Achievement |
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| Alaska | Governor Sean Parnell's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Accountability - School Improvement
-- Focus on the low-performing schools that need the most help.
Assessments
-- Eliminate the TerraNova assessment, while leaving standards-based assessments in place.
High School - Graduation Rates
-- Raise graduation rate to 90% by 2020.
Online Learning
-- Offer more digital learning opportunities. Partner with school districts and the Association of Alaska School Boards on the Alaska 1-to-1 Digital Learning Initiative.
Reading/Literacy
-- Improve reading instruction for kindergarten through third grade.
School Safety
-- Continue working with local districts to improve school safety and security for Alaska's children.
Teacher Evaluation
-- Evaluate teachers based on student learning.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Standards
-- Raised content standards.
Postsecondary - Financial Aid
-- Awarded Alaska Performance Scholarships to more than 4,600 young people.
-- Fully funded performance Alaska Performance Scholarships.
Full Text: http://www.gov.state.ak.us/parnell/press-room/full-press-release.html?pr=6345
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| Illinois | Governor Pat Quinn's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
School Safety
-- Pass legislation that will require every school in the state to practice active safety drills that will prepare them for even the worst.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Accountability
-- Improved school report cards.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Trained thousands of workers for jobs in high-demand industries like healthcare, manufacturing and construction.
Postsecondary Access - Immigrant Students
-- Created the Illinois Dream Commission for awarding scholarships to high school graduates from immigrant families.
Military
-- Signed an Executive Order that directs our licensing agencies to assess military training for state license requirements. Last month, the Board of Nursing approving a suggested "bridge" curriculum for military medics to obtain LPN licenses.
P-3
-- Invested $45 million to build early childhood education centers in high-need communities across Illinois, including in Carpentersville, Dolton, and Cahokia.
School Safety
-- Convened a School Safety Summit with education, public safety, mental health and law enforcement leaders to identify better ways to protect our schools.
Teacher Evaluations/Tenure
-- Set clear benchmarks for teacher evaluation and put performance above tenure.
Full Text: http://www2.illinois.gov/gov/Documents/State%20of%20the%20State/State%20of%20the%20State%202013.pdf
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| New York | Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
State Policymaking-Commission/Teacher Evaluations/Accountability Systems
-- Appoint a bipartisan education commission to work with the legislature to recommend reforms for a meaningful teacher evaluation system and a school accountability system.
Postsecondary - Grant Funding
-- Expand NYSUNY2020 to the remaining 60 campuses, offering challenge grants to research centers for plans to connect academic excellence and economic development.
Workforce Development
-- Create the Office for New Americans to assist legal permanent residents, providing adult education and job training.
Civic Education
-- Implement the New New York Leaders Initiative to create opportunities for the state's next generation to dedicate their careers to public service.
- Student Intern Program - brings students into state government
- Empire State Fellows Program - full-time leadership training program that will prepare next generation professionals who are members of underrepresented groups for careers as New York State policymakers.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
-- N/A
Full Text: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/04/nyregion/04-state-of-the-state-text.html
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| South Carolina | Governor Nikki Haley's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- Start a conversation about the way we fund K through twelve schools in South Carolina.
State Policymaking
-- Give voters the opportunity at the ballot box to make the constitutional change to allow governors to appoint the Superintendent of Education.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Charter Schools
-- Reaffirmed our commitment to charter schools.
Alternative Teacher Certification
-- Invested in innovation with a focus on both rural and urban areas through programs like Teach For America.
Teacher Evaluation
-- Gained more flexibility to manage and evaluate our schools and educators
Full Text: http://governor.sc.gov/News/Pages/RecentNews.aspx
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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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 | Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
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 | Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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 | Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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 | Technology |
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 | Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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 | Youth Engagement |
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