The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2005 state of the state addresses. To assure that this information reaches you in a timely manner, minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) or format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the state.
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| Governor Bob Taft's State of the State Address
For Ohio to regain its competitive advantage, we must prepare each and every one of our young citizens for the challenges of the future.
P-16
Create a statewide education partnership (governor will chair) to engage educators, employers and legislators in building a continuous learning system for students, pre-school through college. Initially, I will give the partnership three tasks:
-- First, better align high school graduation requirements with college readiness standards.A high school diploma should mean that a student is prepared to succeed in college.
-- Second, increase the number of high school students who take a rigorous core curriculum.
-- Third, create incentives for colleges and universities to improve their graduation rates. Enrolling students is not enough. We must do more to help them graduate.
Access
With college costs rising and the state budget under pressure, we must act to make sure no Ohioan is denied a college education because they cannot afford it. To increase enrollment by 30 percent in the next 10 years, we'll expand the Ohio College Access Network so that more young people and their families have access to college information and financing options.
Financial Aid
-- Broaden and increase funding for the state's needs-based college grant program, aligning it with federal Pell Grant standards to expand eligibility to an additional 11,000 students.
-- Launch a new program to provide more than $100 million in low-interest student loans to Ohio students. The Ohio College Opportunity Grant program will align requirements of the part-time student grant program and the Ohio Instructional Grant for full-time students into a single program that will: • Expand access to need-based financial aid for low and middle income families by increasing the family income eligibility from $39,000 to $75,000; • Provide increases in the minimum and maximum grant awards, with individual awards based on student need; • Utilize the Estimated Family Contribution (EFC) methodology to determine a family's need and ability to support the costs of higher education; and, • Align measurement standards with federal Pell Grant program so that students with demonstrated need have more tuition-buying power when the state grant is paired with the federal grant.
Tuition/Fees
Keep tuition increases to a minimum by becoming more productive and more collaborative. To that end, our budget will propose an annual tuition cap of 6 percent, to be exceeded only for the purpose of funding needs-based scholarships.
Finance -- Tax Reform
It's time to reform our tax system to reflect the economy of right now and tomorrow, not the economy of way back then, and yesterday.
-- Slash personal income tax rates by 21 percent across the board.
-- No one earning less than $10,000 a year will pay state income tax at all.
-- Phase out the tax on equipment and inventories, while protecting schools and local governments from losses for an extended time.
-- Replace corporate tax with a commercial activity tax with a very low rate and a very broad base.
-- Eliminate or reduce some taxes and raises others.
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