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State Representative Pam Myhra
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
651-296-4212
For more information contact: House GOP Communications 651-296-5520
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Dear Friends,
It was an honor last week to welcome former Florida Governor, Jeb Bush, to the Minnesota Legislature. Jeb Bush, currently the Chair of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, came to share lessons learned in Florida from instituting a suite of education reforms over the last decade. My two chief-authored education bills are modeled after crucial Florida reforms. A-F Grading of Schools and School Districts, House File 638, evaluates schools based on student proficiency and learning growth and incentivizes achievement through per pupil awards to schools rated an “A” or having improved a letter grade over the previous year. Third Grade Literacy, House File 1487, requires school districts and charter schools to develop and implement a local literacy plan to address: assessment of reading difficulties in K-3, strategies for reading intervention, and methods for parental notification and involvement. This bill also prevents the promotion of a student to fourth grade, who is unable to read, unless an exception applies. Florida’s suite of education reforms have produced impressive results, for example, in 2009 Florida’s Hispanic students scored 29 points higher on the NAEP 4th Grade Reading Test than their counterpart in Minnesota.
Last Friday morning, I was pleased to give the short “Greeting from the State” at the Burnsville Community Prayer Breakfast at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. Since 1978, Burnsville has held this event, patterned in part after the National Prayer Breakfast held annually in Washington, D.C.
Finally, the challenges for our state are great and the issues are significant. However, I am encouraged with the progress we have made so far this session. A balanced budget has passed the House without raising taxes, with reform measures to spur job growth, and to improve the efficiency of the delivery of government services. The omnibus bills are currently in the conference committee process and Governor Dayton has already signed a number of bills into law.
If you have not already done so, please complete my 2011 Legislative Survey. To complete it online, just click on the link on my main House webpage.
Thank you for following my legislative work.
Sincerely,
Pam
News Items
- April 12 Legislative Update - (Posted: 2012-04-12 00:00:00)
- April 10 Legislative Update - (Posted: 2012-04-10 00:00:00)
- Join Rep. Pam Myhra for a Day at the Capitol! - (Posted: 2012-03-16 00:00:00)
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