Darn tootin'. Our illustrious governator gave his State of the State address today. Other highlights include:
- Reforming the redistricting process by giving the authority to redistrict to a panel of retired judges.
- Performance-based incentives for teachers (This could be really bad or really good. I'm holding judgment until I hear more specific information.)
- Reforming the budget "system" that institutes annually increasing mandatory expenditures.
- Oh, and, "We cut the average wait time at the Department of Motor Vehicles from more than an hour to less than 20 minutes [in the past year]."
We'll have to see how much of this he actually accomplishes, but it was refreshing to hear the governor start out the year with guns blazing. At the very least, it will be an interesting year.
Posted by waltondammerung at January 6, 2005 12:33 AMTodd Pearson over at the Centrist Coalition had an interesting post on this as well.
Posted by: Peter at January 7, 2005 9:17 AMPerformance-based pay for teachers should be an interesting debate. I'm torn on this one too. In some ways I think it's a great idea -- potential for higher pay might attract more people to teaching, increased incentive might motivate the unmotivated, blah blah blah. But after talking to Chris S. about it, I'm not so sure anymore. As a former teacher, he has some really interesting things to say about it.
Posted by: Sharon at January 10, 2005 12:57 PM