our web site, c-span.org/communicators. >> i have never spelled more strongly that america's best days in democracy's best days lie ahead. we are a powerful force for good, and with faith and courage we can prove take freedoms next step and we will. we will carry on the tradition of the good and worthy people who have brought light where there was darkness, formed where there was cold, medicine where there was disease, food where there was hunger and peace where there was only bloodshed.

let us be sure that those who have, after who will say of us in our time that in our time, we did everything that could be done. we finish the race. we kept them free. we kept the faith. >> mr. speaker, the president of

the united states. [applause] tuesday night president obama delivers his state of the union address. live coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern including the presidents speech, republican response by indiana governor mitch daniels in your phonecalls live on c-span and c-span radio on c-span2 watch the president's speech along with tweets from members of congress and after the address, more reaction from house members and senators. throughout the night go on line for live video and to add your comments using facebook and twitter at c-span.org. >> ebay president john donahoe spoke at the consumer electronics show in las vegas earlier this month. in his 20 minute speech he talked about how mobile devices are changing the way people shop. >> thank you very much gary. is a it's a real honor and pillage to be here in front of all of you. i am so impressed as it was saying to gary, go i go to a lot of events in the course of my

job during the gear and very rarely do you have so many policymakers, people from government officials from all different parts of the world along with people from industry large and small so i think this is a really wonderful event that i am thrilled to be here. i also recognize that the downside of giving this slot is i am the only thing between you and their night out in las vegas so i will try to keep it relatively brief. what i'm going to speak about today is actually not my vision as gary calls it but actually what we at ebay see happening. it's a vision created by consumers. and sedition being driven by the intersection of two large and very powerful forces, technology and retail. and the intersection of technology and retail before our very eyes is transforming the

retail industry. i am going to start out by making what some called a relatively bold fiction. i think we will see more change in how consumers shop and pay in the next three years than we have seen in the last decade. so more changing consumer behavior in a three-year period of time in intercedes shopping and paying as in maybe the last 10 years, maybe the last 15 years. here is an analogy to think about. how many of you in the audience own an ipac? many of you do. how many of you consume media today, news, other kinds of media in a fundamentally different way on your ipad than you consume media three years ago?

i know that is certainly the case for me. and ipad is not three years old. so a technology device has taken an industry as large as media and in a three-year short period of time consumer behavior has taken this device and dramatically transformed our behavior and had significant impact on the media industry. there are new sets of winners and new sets of losers. i believe the same thing is about to happen to shopping, to retail. and this is a phenomenon like a media that is being led to consumers. it's not being led by brilliant technology visionaries are brilliant retailers. is being led by consumers and it's being enabled by technology. now from where we sit we see for forces that are impacting how consumers shop and pay in our everyday lives.

mobile, local, social and digital. digital we talked about a minute ago, how we are consuming our media through digital means in places and ways and through devices we could not have imagined three to four years ago. well, the same thing is happening to shopping. and this device and ralphie will be really pleased to no, we have the ceo of at&t wireless sitting in front, the smartphone is transforming how we shop and pay. and specifically what the smartphone is doing is it is learning the line between what has been called e-commerce and what has been called retail. that distinction in the eyes of consumers is disappearing. here is an interesting statistic.

if i would have stayed here a year ago, i would have said that ebay we participate in the e-commerce industry and the e-commerce industry is a 400 alien dollar industry that only represents 5% of all on line retail and we think e-commerce is going to double. it's going to grow to 10% so it's going to be a huge opportunity. a year later i will tell you what has happened. that wasn't the right way to think about it. consumers have spoken. retail in this country is a 10 trillion-dollar industry and last year half of all retail transactions, consumers access the internet at some point in their shopping experience. think about your own shopping. whether you were talking earlier at the dinner table or searching to figure out which product you might want to buy. to figure out where you might want to buy it.

in the store, on line? look at prices. look at reviews. maybe you buy it on line. maybe you pay for it, maybe not but the consumers are now using the internet increasingly and almost every retail transaction they have. and they don't view it as e-commerce or retail. they view it as just buying stuff. commerce. and so, consumers increasingly feel like they have a mall in their pocket. consumers want what they want, when they want it and how they want it. the days of running down to the store and hoping they have it in stock and hoping they have my size and flavor in stock and then finding out they don't, consumers are increasingly not willing to put up with that anymore than not being able to find your newspaper in the driveway. you wanted when you wanted, how

you wanted and when you wanted and the kinds of services we are all going to receive this consumers through our devices is just beginning. this is also having a profound implications for retailers and merchants of all sizes all over the world and that i know we have got many large leading retailers today in the audience with us today. here is what i am hearing when i talk to those retailers. they are saying such things as, john, you know we have our physical stores, we have our web site and we have maybe a catalog. but that is no longer enough, because our consumers are beginning to shop on mobile devices and we are not present on a mobile device. if we are not present where the consumers starting to shop how will be going to succeed? they are talking about demand generation. a starkly demand generation for

retailer was you advertised in the newspaper and brought people into your store. increasingly technology is playing a role for retailers. i have had retailer ceos say to me john, we finally have a couple of people that know how to buy google ads to drive traffic to our web site but now technology is driving a lot of our foot traffic into our stores, facebook, twitter, groupon, living social. that is all technology stuff. we are retailer. we are not a technology company. retailers are saying things like this, consumer data, i had a retail ceo tellme here is a challenge i face, john. we have 950 stores across the united states. i can tell you what drawbacks sold and what stores yesterday down to the sku, down to the

level detail. and i can roughly tell you how many customers came into our stores yesterday. here's the problem i face. amazon or a company like yours, ebay, you know how many people came into your store, exactly who bought what items, what they look at, when they bought it, what they left at the checkout counter when they didn't buy it, and what they paid for it. you have information about your customers. what i am scared of is the pandora of shopping the ceo said to me. i don't know how many of you use pandora. pandora has this amazing ability to predict what music you like you needed to both. he said i'm afraid that technology companies like amazon and ebay are going to be of use the data to start predicting what by consumers want. i need your help to get more information about our customers. so technology is having a

profound impact on retail. now, this is that a big impact on our company strategies. as gary mentioned ebay started as a consumer to consumer auction web site. today, auctions represent less than a quarter of the ebay business and the web site represents less than half of what we do. today as ebay has evolved over the years our focus is on helping merchants, helping retailers of all sizes compete in this new commerce environment and we will never compete with them. ebay is not a retailer and we are focused on helping consumers get what they want, when they want it and how they want it. we are a technology provider that is helping to enable retail and i wish i could tell you this is the result of some brilliant strategy that either others have cooked up. it has been more the story of how technology operates as we have opened up technology, how

consumers are pulling that technology and using it and how they shop and pay. they are driving the innovation that we get credit for. i just want to pick a few examples of how this is happening. and i think you are going to see an acceleration of the kind of innovation i'm talking about. let me take consumer electronics. consumer-electronics is a huge, huge business. we have got right at my table, many of the leading consumer and -- electronic companies in the united states. in fact ebay is the ninth largest consumer-electronics destination and the united states. about a little over $4 billion, little over 20 million active consumers buy electronics items on ebay. of course we don't manufacture them. we are not a retailer. we are a place where people can sell them. over the last 12 to 18 months we

have had any of these and other retailers come to us and say for the first time, hey the want to discover if we can begin to sell on ebay. we are looking for additional channels and the reason is what i referenced earlier, ebay has been blessed with tremendous success in our mobile applications. ebay mobile applications have been downloaded 65 million times and we will do -- last year we did somewhere between roughly $5 billion of mobile commerce volume. people are buying 2000 cars a week on ebay on their mobile devices. next year we anticipate that being around $8 billion. and here is what retailers are starting to realize. their consumers are beginning to shop on mobile devices and not every retailer will have their own app because consumers want an app that shows you lots of

retailers products. so here's an example of a couple of retailers that are using technology to reach their consumers. toys r. us, we own three technologies. how many people might have used redlaser? redlaser is a technology that we bought. two guys built it. you can go into any store and you can scan an item and it will show you the prices on line or you can type it in. initially retailers thought this was the worst thing in the world because the people going to do was come into the score scan an item, compare prices and buy it from the cheapest place. it's turning out that is not how consumers are using this. we have had 15 million people download the redlaser app onto their iphones or smartphones. here is what they are doing. they do a search. the enter key word in this case internet nintendo. they want to buy nintendo and

the price of nintendo is on all web sites across the web. we don't just show ebay results. we shall amazon results, walmart results, best buy results. here is what is also interesting. because of a technology called milo we show which stores around you have that item in stock at what price. and a growing number of consumers are using it to go into the store. they are using, this is a way to say hey i'm going to go shopping today and i want to figure out what stores are near me, who has got what i want and now i will go into the store, so what started as an e-commerce or web enabled shopping experience ends up as someone in the store and in this case toys "r" us has made it with one click. you buy it and then pick it up in the store. of course when a consumer walks in the store, toys "r" us saved by the way here are the accessories. would you like to do some more shopping?

when we interview consumers that have been through that experience, they don't remember what they did on their mobile device, on their laptop or in the store. they just viewed it as shopping. best buy is doing, developing a similar application where they want to use technology to bring people and their stores but they want to take it one step are there. this is what i think we will see an explosion of in the next year, where you will be given customized offers. you walk via best buy store and best buy says hey you bought a computer last week. 50% off on a printer if you stop in today. being able to argue specific customized offers to change your shopping experience. you have the choice of buying it on line and having it shipped home or going to the store and picking it up. or going into the store and buying it.

a lot of innovation is happening and a lot of innovation is being done by the retailers and third-party developers changing how we shop and pay. i want to take a couple of other examples. this is an example from the u.k., restaurant chains just -- restaurant chain. they have an application now where you can figure out where the closest pizza express is. where's the closest one? let me order -- order my mail or coffee ahead of time so when i go and i can avoid the line. let me sit down, consume it and instead of waiting for a waiter to come over and take the check are waiting to stand in line to pay, i just paid the bill right from my chair, right from my desk, right from the table. i enter a tip and pay it, boom it's done. they think it increases their productivity. they are encouraging their customers to use mobile devices

to pay while in their restaurants because it adds volume to their business. a couple of other examples. this is not just happening in the united states by the way. this is happening all over the world. visual search. this is an area i meant personally most excited about. you know, think about typing in shopping on line for things like consumer electronics. you type in, i want to buy an iphone or i want to buy a laptop computer. but think about clothing. there are an awful lot of things that when we buy them, it's much more a visual experience. it feels funny to say that i want to buy a dark merkley's premiere dark blue suit but for many i want to buy a nice blue sweater. people tend to want to see it more visually. we are on the cusp of an explosion of visual technologies. we have an ebay today, the

ability where if i see someone that has a shirt or a sweater i like, i can take a picture of it and it will instantly search ebay search results for items that look like that taste on visual search. so within a year, you were going to see people walking down the street. the whole notion of typing things into these devices and i am sure ralph you are seeing this through voice or visual walking down the street saying boy i like that person's shoes. let me snap a picture and see which retailers have shoes similar to that. and you laugh, but technology can do this and you are seeing more and more retailers and technology providers making that possible. i like your tie. i'm going to take a picture of it. i will find out where i can get shipped home for what retailers around they have ties like that. an explosion of visual search and technologies with these

devices. ralph, you really ought to be paying me. this is like advertising. but, i use a smartphone. consumers are in charge. visual technologies going to be a huge, make a huge change in how we use these devices when we shop and pay. let me give an example of over in korea. we are the largest e-commerce provider in korea and this is something our korean team did. in the subway, they now take the store windows and they project products so people running through -- this is one of our consumers running through and using aqr to order it so it gets shipped home the next day. they are now in the korean subways. tesco has little kiosks. instead of having a whole convenience store they have a kiosk that has one of each item, and silly consumer runs through and says, click, they buy it and

it's delivered to them that afternoon or the next day at their choice. the whole notion of what a retail store does is evolving and shifting in that part of asia and i think you will see more widespread adoption of that around the world. the last example i will show is one that is slightly more futuristic but this is less than a year away. which is, walking into a store, looking into a mirror and being able to look at your image and project yourself wearing different things without having to try them on. being able to bring in people who give you opinions. what do your friends think? being able to show what accessories go with what you are looking at. there is a wonderful video on this right now on youtube that cisco has put out this sort of illustrates. again, the technology is there and in this case it is just going to be a matter of retailers and technology companies working together to

make this a reality over the next 12 to 18 months. and consumers are the ones that are doing this. so i want to just conclude where i started. there is a revolution happening in how people shop and pay that i believe will be as significant as the revolution we have just been through or are in the midst of a media. and i think there will be more change in how consumers shop and pay over the next three years than in the last 10. it's an enormous opportunity for technology companies who enable these consumer behaviors. technology companies many of whom are at the show were privileged to be one of those. we believe we can play a central role in that and we never compete with retailers, unlike other technology companies. hans, hans.

and we believe that this will be an enormous opportunity for retailers, some of which people like this by who are embracing this feature aggressively and driving new ways the people shop and there will be some that will suffer. but what is exciting and what i will conclude on is like any great technology movement or any movement that knowledge he has driven and in the history of the last 30 years since the advent of the pc, this is innovation that is being driven by consumers. it is being driven by you and i as we shop each and every day. that is a little bit about how we see the world. thank you for giving me the opportunity to shared with you and we look forward and hope you enjoy the rest of the show. thank you. [applause]

>> i have never felt more strongly that america's best days and democracy's best days lie ahead. we are a powerful force for good. with faith and courage we can perform great deeds and take freedoms next step and we will. we will carry on the tradition of the good and worthy people who have brought light where there was darkness, warmth where there was cold, medicine where there was disease, food where there was hunger and peace where there was only bloodshed.

let us be sure that those who have come after will say of us in our time that in our time, we did everything that could eat done. we finished the race. we kept them free. we kept the faith.

>> some will say we are reactionary. others will say that we stand for socialism. there will be the inevitable cries. it's time for a change and so on and so on. we will hear all those things and many more, but we will hear nothing that we have not heard before. ski as candidates campaign for president this year but with back at 14 men who ran for the office and lost. go to our web site c-span.org/the contenders to see video of the contenders who had a lasting impact on american politics.

>> to let our opponents stand on the status quo while we seek to refresh the american spirit. let the opposition collect their $10 million in secret money from the privileged few and let us find 1 million ordinary americans who will contribute $25 each to this campaign, a million-member club with members who will not expect special favors for themselves but a better life for us all. c-span.org/the contenders. >> in his 11 state of the city address new york mayor michael bloomberg outlined plans to lay off teachers said underperforming schools and reward high rated teachers with bonuses of up to $20,000. from governor -- high school in the bronx, this is an hour.

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[applause] public advocate and presidents and incidentally helen marshall was a graduate of this high school. [applause] we have some of our district attorneys. i didn't see you there before. and members of the city council and state legislature and some congress people here. thank you all and my fellow new yorkers, it is great to be in the bronx. [applause] this is the place of legends like injustice when sonya sotomayor and mario rivera and it was also the home of the future superstars like the members of the high school latin band. [applause] the ps 32 chorus and the cultic

dreams dance. r&d fantastic? [applause] now, it is a city that is the capital innovation, and this one has given us some of the world's great authors, architects not to mention the pioneers of hip-hop and salsa. [applause] let us host the green bay packers see plenty of salsa dancing on sunday. the [applause] the bronx have always been a guru of innovators and that we can see most recently in the students here at the academy for collaborative studies, who built a m. -- [applause] they built this award winning message and have the message right. hauer about the robot club? they deserve a round of applause. [applause]

now, it's an honor to be introduced by a teacher like ishmael. what an inspirational story. and by the bronx president, with ruben diaz, jr.. thank you so much. [applause] no matter what you read about reubin, we work together on an awful lot of things and it's also a great pleasure to be here , gouveneur campus. in case you don't recall your history he was a founding father of this country from this section of the bronx, hence morrisania and is credited with drafting much of the constitution and putting the phrase that still defines the spirit of our great nation: we've the people. and that's the spirit that has defined our work in new york city over the past decade and

has allowed us to accomplish great things. for instance, and 2011, we said we would fight to make marriage equality a reality across the state and thanks to the leadership of governor cuomo and both parties of the legislature and the hard work of my chief policy advisor, we did that. [applause] today new yorkers are free to marry the person they love. in 2012 we said we would work to bring taxi service to all five boroughs, and again, thanks to the governor and legislature, especially the bronx assemblyman carl hasty and also david yassky and michah lasher needed. [applause] and in partnership with speaker christine quinn and the city council, we did. [applause] we said we would make new york city safer and healthier than

ever and with the commissioners kelly and cassano leading the way, we did it again. [applause] in fact, in fact in 2011 we had the lowest traffic fatalities in history. near record lows and the facilities and of life expectancy rates that are far surpassing the nation. we said we would place a record number of new yorkers on jobs and with the commissioner leading our small business services, we did. yes, you can applaud. [applause] we said we would launch the most comprehensive effort to connect black and latino men to jobs and education. and thanks to the deputy give this and our commissioners and the support received from george soros, we did. [applause] we said we would seek to attract a world-class university to build the science and engineering campus here in the ec president and deputy mayor of steel, and we did. [applause]

we said we would open a new section of the high line, break ground on the new whitney museum and complete the expansion of the museum of the moving image and because of the leadership of the commanders amanda burden and kate ligon and kathryn oliver, we did. [applause] we said we'd open the 9/11 memorial in time for the tenth anniversary of the attacks and thanks to a great american who served this country in world war ii and has served our country and our city ever since, john whitehead, we did. [applause] thanks to all those leaders and so many other members of the outstanding work force in all of our partners in the private sector we accomplish big things in 2011. but don't worry. we have even bigger plans for 2012. beginning -- [applause] you becerra. the beginning of our agenda for

the year ahead is actually written right here in the history of this school. gouveneur morris hi was created of the school reform law of the team 96. 116 years ago when the reform law was being debated. there were protests, rallies, controversies; sound familiar? welcome here we are today because the work of school reform -- as difficult as it can be -- is still far from done. and now what is more important than ever. [applause] nine years ago this month, on martin luther king, jr.'s birthday i gave a speech outlining our plan to transform a badly broken school system. back then, the graduation rate had been stuck at 50% or less for decades. a violent crime, social promotion, hiring based on political connections -- they all played our schools.

parents had few to choices about where to send their children to school and they had even less information about how a school was performing. the worst part was many people have stopped believing that anything in our schools could never get better. well, i know you didn't believe that coming and we don't believe that either. together, we took a broken system, we took it on by stressing accountability and innovation and ending social promotion, and we have made real progress in turning it around. today graduation rates are of 40% since 2005 versus just 8% in the rest of the state, the whole state of new york. the biggest gains have been made by black and hispanic students whose graduation rates are up more than 50%. [applause] we cut the dropout rate in school crime nearly in half and we've given our parents for more

information about their kids' schools and four more top quality school choices. in fact, a recent study by a nonpartisan brookings institution found that we have now the most effective school choice program of any large district in the nation. that's right, the most effective in the united states of america. [applause] by almost any measure, students are doing better and our school system is heading in the right direction. now of course we still have a long way to go. no doubt about that. but today tens of thousands of students who may have ended up on street corners or in prison at the old system had remained in place or now and colleges are starting their careers. just think about where we are today. ten years ago, the fresh abrasion rate here at morris high was only 27%. now, two-thirds of students graduate and for years, and three-fourths graduate within six years. [applause] and i have to say, those

students who purser feared beyond four years -- often while dealing with family obligations or language barriers -- really deserve to be celebrated, because their determination and drive, their hunger for a better life mix their accomplishments, i think, even more impressive. [applause] we have to students with us today who are on track to graduate and i would like to ask them and the teachers and administrators to stand up. [applause] the success over students have achieved i think demonstrates the promise of education reform. but the unemployment in the neighborhood surrounding the school demonstrates the urgency of fulfilling that promise now,

for all students in all schools throughout our city. in point is higher in the bronx than any other borough. people here want to work but jobs are hard to come by. and in too many cases where jobs do exist, they require skills and diplomas that put many of them out of reach for many people. for my generation, a high school diplomas often enough to get a good job and enter the middle class. today, graduating without the grades to go to college or the skills to enter a trade generally means a low-wage job with limited prospects. or for far too many, it means the beginning of a life of unemployment and crime. we just cannot allow that to happen. if you come from a middle class family, as i do, and if you believe that education is the ticket to middle class, as i do, then there is just no peacekeeping the fact that we cannot accept failing schools. and we cannot accept excuses for inaction or delay.

all across this city we face the same challenge -- the challenge of building a 21st century economy and building the 21st century public schools that can drive it. it is the challenge of our time, and how well we need it will define the state of our city for generations to come. so today, i would like to share with you the new strategy is that we will adopt in 2012 to meet that challenge, and they all center on making our schools, our economy, our government the most innovative in the world. let's start with our schools. the education reforms we have pioneered over the past decade, no matter what the naysayers say, have been widely adopted by school systems across the nation, but this year we will be putting our foot on the gas and picking up the pace. because we have to be honest with ourselves. we have only climbed halfway up the mountain, and halfway isn't good enough. we want all of our children to see the view from the top, to see the world of possibilities

that stretch out before them. now, getting there won't be easy. the claim gets steeper the higher you go. but we cannot allow fear of what lies ahead to stop us, we cannot allow obstacles to slow us down, and we cannot allow those who prefer the comforts of the base camp to the acceleration of the summit to horseback. we have to charge ahead. our children deserve to make it to the top of the mountain. and we owe it to them to help guide them there. [applause] today, with chancellor dennis walcott leading the way, we are setting off for the summit. a summit that no other big city in america has ever reached. but if any city can come it is new york city. the course we are charting involves five major steps and let me briefly outline each.

step number one, the single most important factor in a student's progress is the effectiveness of the classroom teacher, and we are going to find new ways to attract, every word and retain great teachers. [applause] we already have thousands of great teachers, some of the best in the world. and i have enormous respect for the extraordinary personal investments that they make in our students. over the past ten years, we've worked hard to invest in them by expanding professional development and raising their base salaries by 43%. a teacher hired in 2002 ready starting salary of $31,000 can now make $78,000, similar to what their peers in the suburbs make. [applause] this year we will attract teachers by helping with their college loans. the burden of paying back college loans can sometimes lead

koppel will students to cross teaching of the list of possible careers. but we need their talent in our classrooms. our kids need them and so we are proposing to create an incentive to anyone that finishes college in the top tier of the class. come teach in our schools. if you commit to stay, we will pay off up to $25,000 of your student loans. our teachers deserve that and so do our children. [applause] the marketplace keeps showing us that we have to be competitive if we are going to attract the best and as everyone knows, college loans that become a major issue for our young people. we expect the uft will support the the part of education in this effort. but if not, there are other ways to achieve it through the private sector. one way or another we will attract those talented teachers to the [applause] we also want to retain the best

teachers by offering them a big raise. and today, we are making an offer to all york city teachers. if you are rated highly effective two consecutive years, we will hide your salary by $20,000 per year. now, historic the teachers' unions around the country suppose rewarding great teachers for the merit pay. but more and more teachers are asking why. and we have seen how well this can work in other cities. a recent article in "the new york times" explain how cities with merit pay have found that rewarding great teachers keeps them from leaving the system. again, our teachers deserve that and so do our children. and with -- yes. [applause] and with an evaluation system now required by law, regarding great teachers out an idea whose time has come and we hope the uft will join us in this effort because it is the right thing to do for our schools and for our teachers.

[applause] of excellence deserves to be reported and compensated. how do we determine which teachers are highly effective? that brings us to step number two in the journey to the mountaintop. here again, we are building on the word that we have already done. two years ago we directed principles to adopt a more rigorous tenure evaluation system. these to be 97 present for teachers got just a matter of course many of them deserved but others did not. it should be something that is earned, not automatically granted, and now that is exactly what is happening in new york city. [applause] principles decide who should and should not get tenure with the school superintendent signing off on it and last june the percentage of teachers receiving tenure dropped from almost every one receiving it, 97%, to about half of them receiving it, 57%.

it doesn't mean the rest will earn it some day we have a big investment in them, but we are raising the bar for teachers just as br for students. we are going to reserve for students will not raise it for teachers to the [applause] and this year we will do more to make sure every classroom has an effective teacher and to remove those who just don't make the grade. [applause] the changes we've made in the schools, evaluating teachers is one area where unfortunately we have to report nothing has changed. teachers continue to simply be rated as satisfactory or unsatisfactory. it is a past the old system with a 98% pass rate. our students don't have the luxury of being raided past fail. and neither do people in other professions who have to make a living to see their family. and neither should our teachers.

the the date over teacher's evaluation began when the obama administration rightly made them part of the race to the top grant competition. to qualify for the money the state passed a law requiring the district to adopt a teacher evaluation systems. but the law gave the unions the veto authority. does the governor recently said, the lot just hasn't worked. like many other districts around the state, we are at an impasse and let's be clear about what the stakes are. a recent study by harvard and columbia economists found students with effective teachers are less likely to become pregnant, more likely to go to college and more likely to get higher paying jobs. nick christoff as a column about it today and the new york times. i urge everyone to read it. great teachers make an enormous difference and ineffective teachers are hurting our students future. we cannot allow that to the [applause]

common sense says unfortunately not every teacher is a great teacher. we have to help those that need the help, and if they can't get help, then we have just got to say are we here for the teachers or for the stones and i know what side on the imm on. [applause] we need to be able to identify those ineffective teachers and give them the support they need to grow. i want them to stay in the system and i want them to work but that doesn't work, we need to be able to move them out coming and we have to do it now. waiting another year or two years for a decade would be sending a whole bunch of kids out into the world with all the skills they need to enjoy the great american dream. a real evaluation system that is based on measurable improvement in student performance and principal assessment and allows us to make real changes as the only way that we can do that. now we have a model that works well when deciding tenure and this should be the basis the same similar process. but when we try to get approval

for just such a system, for just 43 struggling schools, 43 out of 1700, the you left he insisted on provisions the would make it even harder to remove an effective teachers, not easier but harder. we are supposed to be going in the other direction. as a result, those 33 schools have just lost 58 million-dollar school improvement grants from the state. if nothing changes it could cost students hundreds of millions of dollars in federal race to the top funds. i can tell you this. we are not going to accept that. we are not going to wait around while they remain in the schools. [applause] under the school turnaround program, already authorized by federal and state law and consistent with the provision of the existing new york city uft contract the city can form school based committees to evaluate teachers on merit and replace it to 50% of the faculty

if it is merited. under the process the best teachers say the least effective goes and now that is exactly what will happen. we move the 33 schools that should have gotten state grants and we believe that when we take this action we will have fulfilled the stat requirements and the schools will be eligible for the 58 million-dollar funding. [applause] the students in the 33 schools desert effective teachers and so does every student in every school. our 1.1 million schoolchildren just cannot afford to wait. there is too much at stake. there is too much at stake and we will not let them down. [applause] now, step number three in the journey involves continuing to give parents even more talk of the school choices.

the four new schools here the morris campus on among the 500 schools we created over the past decade including 139 new charter schools. and this year we will phase out another 25 schools and open small schools in the same buildings. all told all our goal was to open 100 new schools over the next two years including 50 charters and we will do that by asking a most successful charter schools operators to expedite their expansion plans including kid the academy and the success academy networks. we will also begin recording a high-quality charter school operators who have yet to come to new york, and i'm glad today to announce that one of the most successful rocket ship has just committed to opening schools right here in new york city. [applause] step number four in the journey will prepare students for what awaits them at top. college and careers. today for too many of our graduates are leaving without the skills they need to 6 cents

succeed beyond high school. not every student wants to go to college nor do the right to every student but all students should leave prepared to succeed in the next phase of their lives. over the past year we work with the state to realign the region exam with college readiness standards, and that will happen in the years ahead. at or students can't wait. and in the weeks ahead, we will make every public school student complete new study lessons and assignments involve math and literacy that involve the kind of critical thinking skills that are aligned to the college readiness standards and we will share the results of their work with parents at parent-teacher conferences this march. [applause] we are going to begin doing intensive college and career readiness work with 40 additional high schools as part of the young men's alliance as well, the young man's initiative of the department of education we will continue forming partnerships that expose students to exciting career

pathways. for instance, last september we opened an innovative new school in partnership with ibm that focuses on computer science. i don't know how many of you know about it but it is a six year high school. it goes grade nine through 14. that's right, nine through 14. so the students graduate with a degree and an associate's degree and they also get a place in line for a job at ibm. it is a forward we of thinking. [applause] it's a whole new way of thinking about secondary school based on today's economic realities. and now, thanks to the support we plan to open a three more schools using this exact same model, one of them right here in the bronx. [applause] in addition with support from the venture capitalist fred wilson this september will open a software engineering academy one of your own teachers from stivers in high school and we are honored to have both read

and mike with us today. [applause] the new school will be located in union square the home to a growing community that includes companies like the general assembly. and these are the kind of companies we want our students to work for or to start. and to encourage the next generation of entrepreneurs in every field we've launched a pilot for the students developing business plans with other students how about the world. over the next two years we will open at least a dozen new career and technical the education programs aligned with the trends in the global economy students will get out of school internships tailored around their course work in the interests. to this, we do need more private sector partners. in the recent weeks many of our city's leading corporate citizens have joined a mentoring program for high school students called on a mentor. it's part of our initiative innovative effort with the

service to reduce school truancy to the and issuing a second challenge to them and to the leaders of our hospitals, hotels, businesses, nonprofits, every kind of organization including our growing technical community. join us in this effort to connect high school students to the career paths and one of the companies that has always agreed to participate i'm proud to say is bloomberg. i'm glad i still have some poll over there. [applause] i can tell you from personal experience how much an internship means when i was in high school i was lucky enough to get a job working for a small electronics company and the job is the only reason i applied to johns hopkins university and without it, i am not sure where i would be today. i am pretty sure i wouldn't be kissing lady gaga on new year's eve. [applause] the fifth and final step for our journey to the educational mountaintop is making sure that when our children are ready to continue their education and training they can afford to do

this and under new partnerships with the obama administration we will be informing about which of our students helping to attend college fail to apply for federal financial aid and help make sure we get the applications in. [applause] we will also help lead the charge for the new york state gerry to. some children who are brought here illegally -- [applause] the children who are brought here illegally can apply to the state-sponsored college loans, grants and scholarships. look, we can't blame them for being brought here as intense or teens and since they are going to be here to stay, it is in the new york city's best interest to make sure that they become productive members of the

society. i took out loans to get to college. [applause] i took out loans to get to college. i know how important that money is and i believe that all of our students should be eligible for the financial lead the need to succeed and if they succeed, we will succeed. [applause] they are not just about a politics they are about children. when we sit down there are two groups in the room. the u.s. t and our school children. they are who we work for and we will. we have an obligation to stand up for their lives, their future, their hopes and dreams. their voices, the voice we listen to, and i felt all of us should hear it today. ♪ i would like to be a baseball player. a pile wet.

>> new york city, home of aspiration. to be the mayor or a least somebody that works with the president. >> education to respect my favorite is science. >> social studies. nafta. writing. >> new york city, capital of innovation. i would invent the kind of flight that could move and change the place. spec i would invent beans so that if other people need beans they can eat beans. >> medicine to cure all sicknesses >> that equality, what education

matters. ♪ [applause] >> these are the leaders of tomorrow, the doctors, lawyers, the mayors. they will lead the economy of tomorrow. if we give them the tools to dewitt putative and if we begin building the economy right here and now. that is the second major challenge i would like to address. making our economy a global capital of innovation for the 21st century. last month we took a big step to redefining our economic future to begin by forming a historic partnership with cornell university and the institute of technology to build a new science and campus on roosevelt island. [applause] building the new campus will generate up to 20,000

construction jobs and 8,000 permanent jobs and those are not just the ph.d. but for building stuff and office workers and every other discipline in the middle. cornell will also create educational programs for 10,000 of our new york city public school students and 200 of our new york city public-school teachers annually. partnership i'm happy to say will begin this fall. they don't have to wait until they build a building. they are running states and doing it now. [applause] and it's going to be a transformative project. today we are glad to be joined by the dean of computing and information science at cornell and the director-general. [applause] as we work to create the jobs of tomorrow, we will also plan for and create the space that companies need to grow.

in lower manhattan we will work with pat and david samson at the port authority to keep progress going on the new towers of the world trade center to get on the far west side we will work with bringing the new jobs and housing and we will complete the signature theater's new home on 42nd street. and the area around grand central will work with the city council on the package for tiberi changes and incentives that will attract new investment, new companies and new jobs. to expand the space for the film and digital media companies we will open a new incubator that will help us build on the last year's records success and film and television and continue to compete with hollywood for post-production business. [applause] and we are launching the new non-profit called space works that would create long-term affordable rehearsal studio space for artists citywide in putting on the governor's island. [applause] as we planned for future growth

we will also create the jobs new york needs today. here in the bronx the first wave of the 2,000 construction workers will break ground on the next great shopping destination the $270 million mall at the plaza will open their first east coast plan with more than 100 new yorkers go to work assembling the the zero emission trucks and vans. a new supermarket -- we have more to go on the bronx. a new supermarket store offices and charter school will bring 200 new jobs to the long vacant spot in the bronx of on 149th street. we will begin renovating work on the bronx river arts center creating a new media center photography studios and galleries. we will begin reforming the east road to allow for more private investment and export economic development possibilities on webster avenue. and to do that, we are working as a group of neighbors we call the blogs called the new york

botanical garden, the bronx zoo, the medical center, and of course the emerging basketball powerhouse. [applause] i knew the father could do it. just don't ask him dhaka football team. and if anybody thinks that reubin diaz and his administration have been to working just listen to the list we came up with. we have been working together. we are also stepping up efforts to keep some 3600 good paying jobs where they belong, at the produce market. [applause] new jersey is seeking a big picture of the market away. but we are fully committed to modernizing the market and keeping those jobs here. so today, in partnership with speaker christine we are getting the $25 million to what will now be the city's 87 million-dollar commitment to rebuild the market. [applause]

and that's not the only big news here in the bronx. we are also launching a new effort to bring jobs to the most talked-about empty building that cambridge hari. [applause] and in collaboration with reubin today we are releasing the request for the proposals for the new operator of the army. when you're putting aside our differences to do what is best for the city and that is what leadership is all about. it's not about a series of running argument. it's about getting things done. we've heard from a variety of interested parties including those who want to develop its recreational space and we are hopeful that the cambridge armory system for some 15 years will soon be transformed due to a place that benefits the community and in place, and the members. [applause] in every borough in 2012 will

bring new jobs online and make investments that will attract more visitors. in queens, jeff will open its new headquarters in long island city. and the expansion of the queens museum of art will double its size. on staten island we will create a new blue-collar friend of the industrial business zone and redesigned the aquarium and we will help break ground on a major apartment and retail development at the home port creating more than 1100 construction jobs. in brooklyn, more blue-collar jobs will come to the waterfront both in sunset park and the navy yard. we will bring new jobs to county island the new rise and attractions and the war played center at the atlantic bringing big league sports back to the row where they belong. [applause] these attractions will also bring even more tourists to the city. last year we had a record of

50 million. but you and i know we can do better. this is new york city. there are countless foreign tourists who want to come to this duty to the committee only to find it painfully difficult to secure the visa. that is not only hurting them it is hurting us by costing us jobs at a time when so many of our people are out of work that is just unacceptable. so this year we will work with senator schumer and jul brandt to make it easier to get tourist visas especially for those coming from the growing markets like india, china and brazil. millions of people not want to spend money in our hotels, restaurants and stores. we shouldn't stand in their way. now, as we create those new jobs it will also do more to help new yorkers fill those jobs. last year the city's work force career center made a record 35,000 job placement. this year we will help even more new yorkers find work with for new work force centers and all free public library systems.

[applause] to obtain licenses and certifications the need to find work here and in the city. we will create an incubator that will offer foreign entrepreneurs the tools and legal support they need to develop their businesses right here and increased opportunity for the cities, minorities and women owned business is so that those firms can compete for and win more city contracts. [applause] most important of all we are going to mount a major new effort to help the new yorkers who defended our nation's freedoms find the jobs and housing the desert. today there are some 9,000 unemployed veterans in our city. it is no excuse for that. and that is why this year with the help of the robin hood foundation our work force centers will offer new services to connect to veterans to jobs.

[applause] and and we will work with a property management called urban america to attract more private landlords to the rental discount programs they run for returning veterans. our men and women in uniform stood up for our country and now it is our duty to stand up for them. [applause] [applause] the cost of housing is something many new yorkers struggle with since the national recession in 2007 the cost of living in new york city like everyplace else has gone up. but not just housing, food,

transit and all of the key parts of the family budget. but there's one thing in all fairness that hasn't gone up, the ability of those of the bottom of the economic ladder to pay for those in essential needs. [applause] in america we want people to work. we want them to set the alarm clock and punch the time clock. that's what america is all about, being in charge of your own destiny and working your way up. and that is why we want to incentivize work through programs like the earned income tax credit. you work, we help. the minimum wage is another way to help those who can only find jobs with entry-level wages by incentivizing and recording -- rewarding work. like the eitc, it helps those who are trying to help themselves. setting up the minimum wage is a balancing act as we all know. setting it up so people can get by on it without having a negative economic impact. right now, i believe that we are slightly out of balance. the genius of the free market is

always perfect. two of our neighbors, connecticut and massachusetts have raised their minimum wage above the federal standard to address the higher cost of living to the and so while we prefer the federal government to act to keep us competitive, this year our administration will join with the speaker shall the silver in pushing for a response will raise the minimum wage. [applause] our city just cannot afford to wait for washington. not when it comes to illegal guns, not when it comes to climate change, not when it comes to creating jobs, and not when it comes to raising the minimum wage. [applause] now, economic studies have shown that raising the minimum wage can reduce youth employment. and so we will work to counteract that by continuing to increase our summer youth employment opportunities and to drive at the heart of the

unemployment problem we will go to the neighborhoods where the problem is the worst like here in the south bronx and central brooklyn we will launch a new effort to mobilize the businesses, community groups, nonprofits and the city agencies to create new job opportunities in those communities. for instance with a young man's initiative we will develop opportunities for them to earn a while they learn the skills required by a knowledge economy. we will also create incubator's especially to help low-income entrepreneurs get off the ground. if we can succeed in raising employment in the most depressed neighborhoods, and i believe we can, we can not only improve people's lives, not only the safety and stability of those neighborhoods, we can build on the work of the center for economic opportunity in helping the next generation of residents practice cycle of poverty that has plagued those communities for too long. [applause] make no mistake about when you are going to have to work, but

if you work, we are there to help. if ever there was a community that knows how powerful targeted investments can be it's where we are today right here in the south bronx. this area was once so amanda and that it was compared to dresden after world war ii. today the south bronx is a poster child for the urban revitalization and one of the people who really deserves enormous credit for that is with us today. [applause] now, i will get a lot of grief afterwards if i don't once again urge you to take the bridge on your way home wherever you live. [laughter] he showed that investment in affordable housing is the key element of a successful economic development agenda and of the past decade we've created or preserved 40,000 in units of affordable housing here in the south bronx alone and more than

100,000 units across the city. this year we will take steps to bring a more affordable housing to a lower east side around to cite the largely vacant for half a century will begin building of affordable housing and retail space on lavonia avenue in east new york at salt and cleans up randolph houses and central harlem and across the entire nitrous system we will significantly reduce the backlog of repairs that has resulted from substantial, sustained federal budget cuts. this is all part of our strategic plan to improve services to the residence and preserve public housing for generations to come. [applause] and the community will also be the site of one of our newest waterfront reclamation projects. using land that now relies mostly vacant will begin to create 2300 units of housing a waterfront park and the supermarket next to the history

houses on the east river. and all across the city we will continue reclaiming and revitalizing our waterfront and the park in queens will complete the reconstruction in williamsburg and the first phase of the park we will transform tier five of the park into the open spaces and here in the south bronx will begin construction of the sound view park and in the harbor continue transforming the island time passed by with 30 acres of park land that will make the island one of the great waterfront destinations in the world. [applause] all across the city we will join with at&t to bring wi-fi services to a dozen city parks. so even if you are enjoying the beautiful day you can still work or study or plate words with friends. better in the park than on the plan. sorry. reclaiming the waterfront and wiring our part or just two of

the ways we are reinventing the city around the needs of people today, not the needs of people 40 years ago. and that brings us to the third and final major change i would like to address and that is making our government the most innovative of any in the world. by creating an administration that empowers team members taking risks and leads in the front i think we are already saving the standards and so many areas. when people read the will talk of the most innovative public policies, the most cutting edge policies and programs are taking shape, they talk about new york city, there isn't a second place. in the year ahead we are going to give them plenty more to talk about. [applause] yes, you're going to be happy with this. we will begin using technology to keep our city safe. the nypd counterterrorism program will add more than a thousand advanced cameras to sensitive areas, deplore or license plate readers to bridges and tunnels and expand the use of radiation detectors wired to

the lower manhattan security coordination center which can respond immediately to any questionable readings. we are safe and we are going to keep ourselves safe. first responders will begin sending real-time information over the city's wireless network from an ambulance to an emergency room saving precious seconds and likely saving lives and strongly pushed to support to expand dna collection which will build on the 2006 law that we helped pass and we will launch a data analytics team that will use the latest technology to fight crime and poverty and an assist businesses and entrepreneurs. to get more people working on construction sites will streamline the inspection process just as we've done for restaurants and retail shops in partnership with speaker christine krin. we've already open and online hub for reviewing and improving the visual construction plans and now we are teaming up with the industry to form the partnership to build a and

together we will strengthen safety and reduce waiting times for building inspections city-wide. our goal. [applause] our goal is ten days or less and we are not talking about cutting corners, we are talking about cutting red tape and we will also do that by streamlining the city planning review of the land use applications. the city government will get smarter so more yorkers can get to work. [applause] we will also make our city smarter and safer by deploying traffic enforcement agents to safety hot spots at key intersections doubling the number of the 20-mile per hour zone for schools and by continuing to add miles of protected by clients. now i realize that the date of the bicycle and sometimes it's been hot and heavy. but the reality is more and more new yorkers are biking and the more by plans we put in the future of deaths and serious injuries we have on the streets.

[applause] it really does save lives. [applause] this year we will take steps to enforce the law requiring every delivery writer to have proper safety equipment and clothes that identify the name of his or her business. at the same time we will launch the largest bike share program, the largest lecturer program of any city in the country and those will create another option for getting around town faster and easier and so will the new sill of the bus service in brooklyn which will launch an partnership with the german and of course -- yes, he does deserve a round of applause and of course yet another option will be the new taxi cab but new yorkers have been waiting decades for. [applause] finally, if we are going to be the most innovative city in the world we also have to be the greenest. because that's how you attract the most forward-looking

individuals at the most forward-looking companies. so today we are announcing the next phase in the three key areas where the plan new york city environmental and infrastructure agenda, recycling, clean energy and clean air. to begin we will double the amount of residential waste we divert from the landfills by 2017 and by taking steps like recycling and schools and streets and expanding the recycling program we will reduce our waste disposal cost by $50 million annually and help protect the environment. [applause] we will also become one of the first in the country to turn waste water into renewable energy and explore the possibility of cleanly converting trash into renewable energy. [applause] and to attack air pollution we will overhaul the city's air quality codes the buildings and the zoning codes and accelerate the work with property owners that phase out dirty heating oil which the city council has been so helpful with already.

[applause] all of this work that will help move us closer to our goal of having the cleanest air of any large city in america. we breathed the air and drink that water. it is the congestion that is hurting our economy and we are going to improve in all three cases. now has ambitious as our agenda is for the year ahead we will continue -- we will achieve it by continuing to do more with less. we all know we have budget problems but when i first took office city government had 312,000 employees. today we have 292,000 from a 6% cut. i think it's safe to say and nearly every category we are getting far better results than we did ten years ago. [applause] and this year we will continue to keep the head count down but we will not sacrifice public safety or public integrity. we don't tolerate misconduct or corruption anywhere. we have the very highest standards for those we entrust

to enforce the law. our police forces the best in the world and commissioner kelly at the customer an outstanding job of making sure the york's finest are also the most outstanding and to ensure that we need -- yes, they deserve a round of applause. to make sure we maintain and strengthen that track record we will increase the staffing for the public commission to combat police corruption led by the chair michael armstrong the former counsel to the commission. we will find ways to finance all of these initiatives - wind today. some of them which will come with very little cost like continuing to make the government more efficient and continuing to consolidate the city operations. for instance this year we will put the city owned office buildings in lower manhattan up for sale and expect this will bring more than $100 million next year for the capitol budget, 100 million private sector tax revenue cost savings over the next 20 years by converting public buildings to private buildings and will bring new jobs and housing for the

downtown community. we will seek budget savings by doing everything we can to support the governor and his push for the mandate relief including what has long been one of our top priorities, pension reform. [applause] new york city work force is the finest work force in the world. and currently city workers have earned from current city workers earned their pension. but we cannot afford to continue offering the same benefits to future workers. right now more than 12% of our budget is dedicated to tensions. that's more than $8 billion. we are not using to reduce our tax burden or to spend on salaries for teachers, police officers and firefighters were job creation or social services. governor cuomo is right to make pension reform a top priority and he will have our full support. [applause] now it won't be easy. none of this will be easy but

everything i've talked about today we can complete our make meaningful progress on in 2012. we will work collaboratively with our partners and city government and in albany to achieve great things and pioneer new innovation and that's the way that it should be because this is a city where the line between the possible and the impossible is routinely he raced. and where the art of human fate is spent by the ambition and ingenuity and hard work. [applause] that has always been true and it's never been more true than i think it is today. the sense of possibility that leads us to pursue big dreams and high ideals. that is the essential spirit of our city and we see it every day. we see it in the immigrants to continue to come here and stay here to build a better life. we see it in the artists and entrepreneurs to spend every waking hour pursuing their passions. we see it in the parents to work like mad to get their children a better life. this spirit of promise and

possibility is all of around us. today and every day. a dozen people like christopher and damian brown who founded the blogs brewery just a few months ago. [applause] and a nod to the door of the bronx sunshine incubator that i visited last week. [applause] thanks for being here. [applause] its been educators like joe and david less and of the academy, one of the most successful charter schools. [applause] its been housing leaders like jonathan roads and adam who helped build one of the most environmentally advanced affordable housing developments in the nation on east 156. [applause] it is an all of the people across the five boroughs to do so much to make this city great. you want to know the state of our city, come on every become a

stand-up. this is the state of our city. [applause] never more full of promise and possibility. because in the words of gouverneur morris, there is nothing that we the people can't do. there is no mountain we cannot climb, no summit week, the people come can't reach. if we, the people, decide to do today let us commit to one another we will not stand still when our children need to step forward. we will not deny the dreams of students no matter where they live or where they go to school or whatever country they were born. we will not be my desire so many have to work and jobs that will allow them to build a better

life for themselves and their families and we will not deny the demands that every new yorker has for safe streets free from the plague of gun violence and strong neighborhoods full of life and energy. together, we the people will build our future and we will not rest, not for one second until we have fulfilled the promise and possibility of every great city for every person in this city like every single new yorker. thank you and god bless. [applause] ♪

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♪ >> coming up tonight, state of the state addresses from around the nation first we hear from the georgia governor, nathan deal.

>> in his second state of the

state address this month, georgia governor nathan deal outlans his changes to education. he wants to provide $56 million in teacher raises. this is almost 45 minutes. [applause] thank you. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. [applause] >> lieutenant governor, mr. speaker, president protell

williams. speaker pro tem jones. members of the general assembly, constitutional officers, members of the judiciary, my fellow georgians. in centuries long of past, in a world far removed from the wound we know today, the age of exploration captivated the minds of brave young men. these individuals traveled far distant waters to distant shores to identify the unknown. their will to explore outweighing the countless dangers, the hardships, and at the tragedies they faced. it is an age we now define by these names, columbus, vespucci and magellan. these brave adventurers with only primitive tools at their

disposal, looked to the stars for guidance. the nights were nose always clear, the waters not always friendly. for each man commanding the vessel on the high seas there is would always the temptation to give up and turn back. but we know these men today because they held steadfast to their course, leading them to discover new worlds and to expand the opportunities for mankind. georgians have charged us to set a course for our state, and they have defined the stars we must follow, to expand opportunities. the star of education, we must provide great schools that will cultivate the minds of our young people. the star of transportation. we must provide safe roads and avenues of commerce. the star of security. we must give georgians the

ability to live in safe communities. and the guiding star in our constellation, jobs. we must create a business climate that provides georgians with their best shot at a good job. these are the stars on which our eyes must be cast. and as we focus from there, we will chart a course for our great state. tonight i will discuss our course as we go forward. but first, i think it would be well-served for us to take a rearview mirror look at just for a moment. the situation we faced one year ago, and the progress we have made bears our attention. one year ago, i said the state of our state is strong. that we possess a unique set of strengths, but we also face unusual and historic collections of challenges.

when we met on this occasion this past january, the revenue shortfall reserve fund, or the rainy day fund as it is commonly known, had only enough money to fund state operations for less than two days. meaning that essential functions of government were at risk in even the slightest hiccup were to occur. one year later, with your help, we have begun restoring the rainy day fund. the balance today is $328 million, an increase of 183%. [applause] >> i am committed to continuing to build up this strategic reserve by keeping our spending in check. when we met last year, we faced

a difficult budget situation in which the low-hanging fruit and the easy fixes were gone. and, yes, we worked together to pass structurally balanced budgets that fund the essential services upon which georgians depend, and we did it without new taxes. we have delivered common-sense conservative budgets, free of gimmicks, and one-time gains. for that reason, we are now one of only eight states with a aaa rating from the three major rating agencies. [applause] >> when compared with our aa peers, this credential or credit worthiness saved georgia taxpayers $11 million over the life of bonds that were sold last year alone.

this also provides us with a powerful tool for economic development. when a business considers locating in georgia, it helps to be able to show them that they are partnering with a state government that has its house in order. to that end, beginning this year we will implement zero-based budgeting in 10% of all programs. [applause] >> through zero-based budgeting, we'll bring a new level of accountability to state government, and verify that taxpayer dollars are being spent to meet the priorities of georgians. when we met last year, we faced a federal district court ruling that threatened to cut off up to 80% of metro atlanta's water supply. this evening, with the benefit

of an 11th circuit court of appeals ruling overturning that decision, be are in a much stranger decision to reach a lasting agreement with our peers in alabama and florida, on an issue that is critical to our state in terms of it ability to attract investment and create new jobs. one year ago hope, arguably the nation's most generous merit-based higher education scholarship program, was on the unsustainable course and faced complete depletion of reserves as early as fiscal year 2013. this evening, we can claim a piece of legislation that preserves hope for future generations. and for every student who earns hope, my budget for next year maintains the same award amount as was received this year.

[applause] also, we will again appropriate $20 million for the needs-based programs, 1% loan programs, for needy students. because this is a burden that sometimes faces students and they have nowhere to turn. this year, more than half of these newly appropriated funds went to students who had no assistance from their families. together, we have done something else over the past year. and while it is more general in nature, it is perhaps even more important to our ability to govern well and to the long-term prospects of our great state. together, we have ushered in a new era of cooperation.

last january, we faced a mountain. together we climbed it. thank you for your partnership and thank you for all that you do to serve georgians. but this evening, as we embark on a new year, we have other mountains to climb. and it will require our best collective efforts this year and beyond. recalling the great explorers who look to the night's skies in their search for new lands. the first star in our constellation is education. our schools are the front lines in our effort to create prosperity. it is here that we make our most strategic investment in the future. the amended and fiscal year 2013 budgets i prepared take advantage of the stabilization

in revenues and appropriate an additional $146.6 million to fully fund enrollment growth in our k through 12 schools. [applause] likewise in both the technical college and university systems, i'm calling for an additional 111.3 million to fund anticipated enrollment growth. also, in keeping with the recommendations of the education finances study commission, and because we believe they are vital ingredients in the educational experience that we provide young georgians, my budget calls for $3.7 million in additional funds for school nurses. [applause]

this along with the school nutrition program and transportation funding will be moved into the quality basic education funding formula. these funds will be allocated using the same formula for local districts to which they are accustomed, but they will have the complete flexibility in how they spend them. better than me or anyone else under the this gold dome. i believe local school leaders know how to spend funds 'within their district in order to provide the greatest outcomes for their students. [applause] my proposeed budget called for an additional $55.8 million to fund salary increases for our teachers based on training and experience. unlike the past there are no rucks in qbe, equalization

grants, state schools, or other enrollment driven programs. within education, i have called for a new focus on our youngest learners. the budget i'm proposing increases the prek school year for 84,000 students by ten days. bringing it to 170 days. [applause] >> i am proud to say this will begin the process of restore-k teacher salaries. certainly something that needs to be done. we most make a concerted effort to increase the percentage of children reading at grade level by the completion of the third grade. the best evidence tells us that children not meeting this standard often fail to catch up and are more likely to drop out of school, goo to prison, and have higher unemployment rates

later in life than their reading proficient peers. students must learn to read in order to be able to read to learn, and when we fail to invest in our youngest students, we are forced to spend money on remediation for the remainder of their academic careers. to this end, my budget includes $1.6 million for a reading mentors program. this program will assist schools and teachers as they work to help more young georgians achieve this strategic benchmark. reading at agreed level by the completion of the third grade. [applause] you've heard me talk about moving beyond the status quo in education, and that requires a more intense focus on innovation in the classroom.

in particular, we need to put in place strategy strategies that provide students with opportunities to practice and apply what they're learning in a high-quality, real-world environment. this is one reason we allotted nearly 20 million decide of our race to the top money for the creation of an innovation fund. this initiative asks schools to partner with businesses, nonprofits, and postsecondary institutions, and places a primary focus on developing applied learning opportunities. we've already seen positive results, and tomorrow i will announce the winners of round two. to spur innovation i'm recommending $8.7 million in supplemental grants in both the amend budget and next year's budget for state chartered special schools affected by the

georgia supreme court ruling on charter schools. these schools are key to georgia's educational success, and without these additional dollars they would be forced to operate on a approximately half of the funds of other public schools. however, this is not the long-term solution, and i am looking forward to work with you to ensure that charter schools can thrive in georgia. we can do this and with your help we will! [applause] further, we must clarify the mission of our schools. let me state this very clearly. i believe students graduating from our high schools -- these young men and women who have done everything we asked of them in our k through 12 system, should be fully ready for postsecondary constitutey or a

job, going forward, we will reclaim that mission by ensuring there is a more seamless transition from high school to further study, and from postsecondary stewedy to the work force. when our young people are facing a difficult job market and stiff global competition for good jobs, we must do everything in our power to ensure that our education system provides graduates will real opportunities. our postsecondary institutions must maintain an intense focus on employability and creating job opportunities. and in today's competitive global environment, where technology is constantly reshaping the economy, that means abandoning the ivory tower model and adapting to meet the needs of business. the focus on practical education is why i'm announcing "go build georgia" this evening. go build is a public-private

initiative that will round out our work force development program by educating young people and the public at large about the skilled trades. already the business community is unable to fill many positions calling for highly skilled, industrial and commercial construction professionals, jobs that on average pay 27% more than the average georgian currently earns. and with an aging work force in this area, we are on track to replace only one of every four retirees. today in america, with more than 13 million people unemployed and seeking work, there are 1.3 million open positions in skilled trade industries for which companies are unable to find qualified applicants. right here in metro-atlanta. fema has been unable to fill

approximately 200 skilled-trade positions in the fields of manufacturing automation, healthcare technology, transportation systems, and technical services. it is time we begin work to boost our pipeline. we must work together to ensure that our state has the craft professionals to meet present and forecast demand. this is something we can do and with your help, we will. here in georgia -- [applause] here in georgia we are blessed with world-class university and technical college systems that provide opportunity for every young georgian, and provide business with a pipeline of talented workers. as we seek to continue improving higher education in this state, i want to commend chancellor

hank huckaby and the board of regent and the commissioner ron jackson and the technical college board for performing a strategic consolidation of institutions inch this age of doing more with less, you are delivering a better return on investment without compromising service to students. before leaving the topic of higher education, i want to announce two ambitious goals. georgians deserve a world-class medical university. and it will be a priority of this administration to have a medical college among the top 50 nationally. this is something we can do and with your help we will. [applause] also, within this push, the

georgia health sciences university will seek to become the state's second national cancer institute designated cancer center. alongside the winship cancer center at emery. as of today, georgia's annual death rate from cancer exceeds the national average, but i believe we have all of the ingredients necessary for a determination -- to be a destination for cancer research and a resource for every family battling this disease. this designation would mean greater access to research dollars and enhance our ability to recruit top cancer specialists. even more, it will place georgians battling this horrific disease first in line for the newest and most promising therapies and clinical trials. to support this goal of a second georgia-based cancer center, my budget proposal includes an

investment of $5 million. this is something we can do and with your help we will. [applause] in order to address the need for additional health professionals in georgia, we have been investing in the expansion of undergraduate medical education for several years. we must now take the next step in this process by increasing the number of graduate residency slots. my budget funds 400 new residency slots in hospitals across the state. presently because we lack adequate residency program capacity, georgia taxpayers helped fund a promising young georgians in pre-k, k through

12, postsecondary, and medical education, only to see them perform their residency outside of our state and never return. that doesn't provide value for georgians paying taxes. it doesn't make sense for georgians needing care, and it isn't fair to young georgians looking to begin medical careers. we must ensure that no doctor trained in georgia is forced to leave the state to complete his or her medical education. this is something we can do and with your help, we will. [applause] >> another primary responsibility of government is providing infrastructure, and because it is a key building block of job creation, it is a star that will guide our course forward. in a global economy in which commerce is increasingly long

distance and reliant on cutting-edge logistics, we need a bigger, smarter transportation network to move people and products in the most efficient way possible. that means roads on which traffic and freight move freely. ports that handle bigger ships. and airports that process people and packages more efficiently. to reduce traffic congestion in metro-atlanta along georgia 400, we will be working with the dot to implement innovative traffic solutions. we will modify the existing southbound lanes from mcfarland road to chattahoochee river, allowing an additional southbound through lane. from the chattahoochee river to i-28 5 we will implement flex shoulders in each direction. these improvements will allow to us better facilitate traffic during peak rush hours, accommodating the explosive growth that the northern suburbs

have experienced. recently, we called a halt to the p-3 project for the northwest corridor. while there were many reasons for doing so, one of the most important ones that i can think of was that i was, am, and will be opposed to crag away georgia's sovereignty for a period of 60 to 70 years on a transportation corridor that is so vital to the fewer of our state. [applause] >> i remain committed to improving the northwest corridor, but there is a better way forward. investment in transportation infrastructure is an investment in our future. i applaud this legislature's

creation of a transparent, bottom-up approach to identifying critical transportation projects throughout georgia. the regional referendums on this year's ballots give voters the opportunity to fund a state of projects with a sales tax when they deem the propost investment provide value. over the last several decades our capacity has fallen behind due to underinvestment in transportation. we must ceases this opportunity to invest in our future. we can do this, and with your help we will. we are continuing to work towards the completion of the savannah harbor expansion project. a project that is imperative to our state's competitiveness and with the bigger ships transversing an enlarged panama canal in 2014. my budget for next year includes $46.7 million in bonds to continue deepening project at the harbor. building on the more than

$136 million already approved for the harbor deepening project over the last three years. also, within infrastructure, we are working to ensure that every georgia community has dependable water supplies. while we await the army corps of engineers' decision regarding the impact of water diversions from the lake, we are moving forward with plans to enhance water supply and security around the state. last year, we took definitive action to get the ball rolling much budget for next year proposed $45.7 million for water supply projects, the second installment in a four-year plan, calling for $300 million of new investment in water supply. today -- [applause] today the georgian environmental

finances authority has issued the solicitation and application forms for the water supply program, and local governments can now apply for the low-interest loans and state direct investment as detailed in the recent approved state water supply plan. i want to commend our water task force for creating a thorough, forward-looking plan that makes sense for georgia communities, both big and small. with our state's population projected to grow by an estimated 4.6 million people over the next two decades, it is imperative that we expand water supply across the our state. we must stop being so dependent on the federal government for our water. we must seize our own destiny. this is something we can do and with your help we will. [applause]

>> this evening i talked about our duty as elected officials to do the long-term work of ensuring our state charts a course forward that leads to a rich environment of opportunity for every georgian. when these traditional building blocks fail, more and more citizens drift into the criminal justice arena. ...

my budget proposes $1.4 million to fund additional parole officers at the state board of pardons and paroles. these officers will provide supervision to offenders who would otherwise serve their sentence and be released in our communities without any supervision. unless we provide the appropriate tools of supervision that facilitate a successful reentry into society, history has shown us that all vendors simply return to the prison population. right now in georgia, nearly one in three leading our prisons are the convicted within three years. we must shut that revolving

door. this is something we can do and with your help we will. [applause] i'm also recommending 35.2 million for additional prison beds for those that pose a threat to our citizens and proposal to convert three release centers to residential substance abuse treatment centers at the cost of $5.7 million. if we fail to treat the added drug addiction we haven't taken the first step in breaking the cycle of crime. a cycle that destroys lives and wastes taxpayer resources. this is something we could do and with your help, we will. [applause]

because we are seeing the needed resources to work in a violent youth offenders within our juvenile justice system my budget includes funding to open a new youth detention center as well as funding for to security management response teams. i am also recommending $10 million in next year's budget for the creation of new accountability courts. drug, dy, mental health and veteran's course all of which is proving to be cheaper and more effective than traditional courts for those low-risk offenders falling under their jurisdiction. in fact, drug courts around the nation have proven to reduce recidivism by as much as 35%. this evening i want to tell you about a typical case that finds its way into a drug court.

sarah was a drug addict. the drug use that began as recreation resulted in a destructive methamphetamine addiction. to control of her life she had the means of transportation. she lost custody of her little girl and wound up homeless. but i mention sarah tonight because she exemplifies many of the goals that we hold for our correction system. under the supervision of a drug court, piece by piece she began rebuilding her life. with help, she beat her addiction. she won that her daughter and she is now a sponsor holding other women who face the same. and because she provides a powerful example of hope and redemption i've asked her to join us in this chamber tonight.

sarah and her daughter are here and i will be honored if you give her a round of applause. [applause] [applause] ciro was given a shot at a better life and she took it. her story is not an exception. it is planning not all across georgia as people reclaim their

lives through the work of accountability courts. while these reforms require initial investment, they will increase public safety and ultimately save money by creating a more effective creation system that reality is people closing the revolving door. if we lock up an 18-year-old who has no skills and is unemployable, where will that individual be after completing a 15 year sentence behind bars? without a new approach that brings hope back into the equation we will have spent $270,000 then have a 33-year-old with no skills who is more dangerous and even more unemployable than before. we can do better and with your help, we will that is why we

must transform and focus on transforming our correction system into a last resort of opportunity in place will low level of funders are reclaiming it to restore it to society as functional members of their community or deutsch is for their own families and paying taxes. this evening i'm calling on the religious community, the nonprofits, the charitable organizations to begin addressing the problems of free entry. we nee d you and the people around this state who care to lead a bold new efforts in job training and job placement for prisoners re-entering society. you can provide the bridge that will connect those who have served their time and with a job and the dignity that it

provides. if they will do their part, and many of them will, we must do our part. let me give very clear so that there is no misinterpretation, this is not a get out of jail free card. these do not in any way diminish the seriousness of the seven deadly sins and if you commit one of those in our state, you will spend time in our prisons. in fact, this transformation of our corrections efforts will ensure that we have this piece and the resources to incarcerate high risk of violent offenders as we go forward. first and foremost, the greatest need of our citizens though is jobs. and for that reason, it is the last and the brightest star in

our constellation. businesses require a talented workforce and a strong infrastructure but they also require a business environment that allows them in today's global marketplace with that in mind the invented this initiative put together business leaders and more than 4,000 georgians across the state to develop a strategy that would improve our business case. and this morning at the annual initiatives breakfast i outlined a three part plan for strategic tax reform based on the work of that initiative. first i am proposing the elimination of the sales tax on energy used in manufacturing. [applause] this is a movement will align us with many of our top

competitors. this will have a dramatic impact on manufacturers overall cost structure and vastly improve the competitiveness initiative of our producers. secondly, i am proposing sales in the tax exemptions for the construction materials used in projects of regional importance. giving us this when competing with other states for projects would create large opportunities for those who will create more jobs for our state. a third piece that we are proposing to restructure georgia's job tax credits and quality tax credit programs the programs now in place were created in 1994. the time when the competitive landscape was far different than the one hour businesses operate in today. we will modernize our job tax credits to better incentivize small business growth and hold every georgia community compete with their regional peers.

my office is already working with the house and senate leadership to create legislation to this effect. the georgians cannot compete for jobs that go elsewhere when an employe years make the decision that a neighboring state is a better place to do business. the job creators across this state have spoken, and i ask all of you to join me in making these important changes. this is something that we can do, and with your help, we will. [applause] in this global economy we still face challenges. but we are beginning to see indications that things are stabilizing. georgia's revenue trend has strengthened over the last 18 months. and what sustain growth in this order i believe real job creation as much closer than it

was when we met on this occasion one year ago. ladies and gentlemen, the state of our state is strong. [applause] in keeping with our mission to chart a course that fulfills the priorities and the georgians we will follow these stars providing strong innovative schools year before modern marketplace providing practical tools for work place development providing a modern infrastructure that moves people and products efficiently, providing safe communities, creating a business from the environment that attracts investment and puts georgians in the best possible position to get a good job. when we have fulfilled these imperatives, which are the

legitimate purposes of government let us heed the admonition of georgians who have asked us to do these few things well and then get out of the way and let them live their lives and freedom as they see fit. [applause] [applause] if we do this, hard working self-reliant georgians will

propel our state into a prosperous future. thank you. may god continue to bless this great state and our nation. [applause]

let us be sure that those who, after would say of us in our time that in our time we did everything that could be done, we finished the race, we kept them free, we kept the faith. find state of the union address is going back to 1952 online at the c-span video library and watch president obama deliver this year's address tuesday night, live on c-span. search, watch, clique zandt share. washington your way. president obama gives his state of the union address to congress tomorrow night with live coverage on c-span at eastern.

in august tropical storm i mean destroyed 500 miles of the high willhite with dozens of bridges, 700 homes and state office buildings. in his first state of the state address vermont governor talked about reconstruction efforts. from the state capitol in montpellier this is almost 40 minutes. [applause] thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you so much.

mr. president, mr. speaker, mr. chief justice, distinguished guests, my fellow vermont, thank you. it has been such a privilege to serve as your governor over the past year perch above community, courage and common purpose that has in progress through the unprecedented challenges dawned upon us by mother nature combined with our willingness to make the tough choices necessary to grow jobs and economic and virginities for all vermonters has made us stronger. i want to recognize a few of the thousands of vermonters made us so proud of this last year that serve as symbols of the vermont at its best. we are so grateful to the dedicated women and men of our armed forces who served as both

overseas and during the irene recovery has been exemplary. please join me in honoring our vermont troops and national guard led by general michael so much. [applause] we appreciate your service. the magnitude of devastation from tropical storm irene

astounded the general and me as we landed in the community in the days after the storm. i knew that we needed effective experienced leaders to help us cut through the bureaucracy and as we raced the winter weather. to the recovery officer took from the job to join the team in vermont's time of need all vermonters join me in thanking you for your selfless service to the state you left. thank you. [applause]

she will get me for that later. this has been an especially tough year for vermont's local government leaders. i want to acknowledge four of our storm tested hard-working mayors, thomas from, chris from mary cooper from month earlier, please come stand so that we can acknowledge your service to vermont. thank you so much. [applause] i also want to acknowledge an outstanding legal mind and a pioneer in civil rights who made

history this year by joining the the vermont supreme court. justice robinson, thank you for your service to justice and vermont. [applause] today i report to you on a state of the greatest state in the nation, one that has demonstrated over the course of the past year what it means to the united as one community to overcome tragedy. in the wake of a deep recession, the two storms in the tropical

storm that devastated our infrastructure and exacted on an unimaginable toll on the lives of thousands of vermonters, i can tell you without reservation or exaggeration the state of our state is strong, vermont strong peery [applause] from halifax to hartford, wilmington to waterbury, roxbury to richmond, to the individual actions of bravery and courage in the days and months after irene will be forever etched in my memory. i want to share one of them with you. the mayor who like most local leaders was working long days

without sleep after irene called me every few hours with progress updates on the unfolding tragedy. the search for mike arredondo and his son who went missing during the storm. reform was nothing but a stream in sections where the roadway once ran and i came in by the national guard helicopter to join the mayor louis and give his son a big hug from all vermonters. tommy's dad, mike, senior, grew up in routt monday and went to work for the city for over 50 years rising to become the manager of the water plant, a job to which he dedicated his life. mike and his wife sally had two sons, mike jr, known also as little like come and tommy. mike also had a son rodney.

raviv lost his life in a tragic accident in 2010 and their tight bond with their mom and dad helped them all in the face of such extraordinary diversity. on the evening of irene mikey and a little like braved through the storm to the water plant to check the inlet valve that mike had closed the previous day to make sure that water wouldn't enter the city's reservoir. it was a risk, but they were determined to protect the water supply. carving craters where the solid ground once stood the banks gave way. sweeping them both away. mike smadi was retrieved the next day. the search for little mike went on for weeks.

while sally was comforted by family and friends tommy heroically drove the search and rescue effort digging through mountains of irene's diprete looking for his brother. today on behalf of our state, we honor the two were not heroes, michael gariffano and jr with the promise that we will never forget. joining us in the chamber or sally and tommy, to sally and tommy and the families of the six others who lost their lives as a result of the tropical irene, our admiration and support will never cease. thank you. [applause]

[applause] [applause] as the mayor and i gave what comfort we could to tommy on that day something else happened that characterizes the want. with the roof for shutdown and community after community

isolated islands where roads and bridges once served, brothers john and doug have an idea. doug said governor tommy you the department of motor vehicles to lift the ban on hauling heavy equipment across what is left of our roads and get us permission to retrieve some of the rock and gravel that ollie lost in the streams and we will partner with other private contractors like murkowski excavating, the agency of transportation and the national guard and we can have group for open in three weeks. as soon as i got high enough in the shopper to health self-service and vermont i call the secretary soros, secretary markowitz and commissioner and within hours our team applied bugs request not just to

rutland, but to the whole state of vermont and and guess what, guess what, nine days later we arrows from wilmington to bennington, 18 days later from woodstock, opened and today all roads destroyed by irene ar open triet [applause] you know, we have got members of the team, murkowski here today,

and i would like to ask you to please stand. you represent many construction companies who are in the vermont national guard and the guard troops around the country. we built us vermont strong and vermont honors you stand up. thank you so much. [applause] in his public-private partnership we did it right with the vermont ingenuity common sense.