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| Missouri | Governor Jay Nixon's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Increase funding for workforce training that's custom-tailored to the needs of Missouri employers.
Finance
-- Increase funding for education by $150 million.
-That's $17 million more for early childhood education.
-That's $34 million more for higher education.
-And that's $100 million more for our K-12 classrooms.
-- Issue bonds that will allow the state to establish a permanent, low-interest loan fund dedicated to improving local schools.
-- Create the BOOST (Building Opportunities in Our Schools Today) Fund for investment in first-rate, 21st Century facilities: state-of- the art computers and science labs, libraries and wired classrooms.
P-3 - Preschool
-- Double funding for the Missouri Preschool Program and put more money into programs like Early Head Start.
Postsecondary Affordability
-- Invest $75 million for Access and Bright Flight scholarships and for A+ scholarships, which cover tuition and fees at all our public community colleges.
-- Expand A+ scholarship program to every public high school in the state.
Postsecondary Completion
-- Help adult students finish their degrees on-line, from an accredited university that's putting down new roots in Missouri.
Postsecondary Facilities
-- Provide funds for cutting-edge university research facilities in areas critical to our competitiveness, such as engineering, math, and science with targeted bond issuance.
Postsecondary Finance
-- Tie new funding to specific performance goals - like increased student retention, higher graduation rates and improved learning.
School Schedule
-- Lengthen the school year (extend by 6 days).
Teacher Training
-- Invest in training more teachers
Technology
-- Invest in modern equipment.
ACCOMPLISHMENT
Graduation Rates
-- High school graduation rate is now the seventh-highest in the nation.
Postsecondary Affordability
-- Expanded the A+ program to 150 more schools.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Dramatically increased Missouri's investment in worker training, helping 150,000 Missouri workers sharpen their skills and get better jobs in their field.
Full Text: http://governor.mo.gov/newsroom/2013/Gov_Nixon_delivers_2013_State_of_the_Address
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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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| North Carolina | Governor Pat McCrory's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Online Learning
- Give schools more flexibility to spend lottery funds on digital and virtual learning, which school districts, according to current laws, are not allowed to do right now.
Postsecondary Finance
-- Lead a collaborative effort to help our universities come together as the competition for federal dollars is getting so tough. We need to come together as universities to maximize research funding.
Business Involvement
-- Expand strategic partnerships between the education community and the business community.
State Policymaking
-- Reinstate and lead education cabinet meetings.
Technology
-- Pursue legislation to reallocate a portion of money away from advertising and the large administration cost of the Lottery Commission, and use that money to directly help students access technology.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Economic/Workforce Development; Teacher Certification
-- Signed Senate Bill 14 into law. This bill will help employers find qualified candidates for jobs, directs high schools and community colleges to share resources, and makes it easier for experts in a private sector to get certified for teaching.
Full Text: http://governor.nc.gov/newsroom/governor-mccrory-delivers-2013-state-state-address
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| Oklahoma | Governor Mary Fallin's 2013 State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- Increase education spending by $13.5 million in order to fund recently enacted reforms.
STEM
-- Emphasize STEM in all levels of public education.
Teacher Compensation
-- Invest $8.5 million of supplemental funding to pay for teachers' health benefits.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Accountability
-- Developed an A-F grading system for public schools.
High School -- College and Career Readiness
-- Implemented high school exit exams.
-- Aligned the high school diploma with college, career and citizen ready standards.
Reading/Literacy
-- Put reforms into place to help ensure that every third grader can read at grade appropriate level before they advance to the fourth grade.
Postsecondary
-- Awarded almost 2,000 more college degrees and career tech certificates than the previous year.
Technology
-- Developed a new, voluntary program for schools known as "Open Range" that will be available to help schools begin their own IT consolidation efforts, improve their technology and free up more dollars in the process.
Full Text: http://www.ok.gov/governor/documents/2013%20State%20of%20the%20State%20-%20Text%20as%20Prepared%20for%20Delivery.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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