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 Mike Rounds' State of the State Address
Accountability
Launching the education version of the 2010 initiative. It is called 2010E, and its emphasis will be on goals, objectives and tangible results. We need to be more specific. That's what 2010E will be all about. If we share goals and if we have specific tangible results that we are trying to achieve, then those professional educators will know which tools to use to do it the most effective and the most efficient way.
Finance
Proposing a 2.9 percent increase in ongoing revenues for schools.
When streamlined sales tax revenues start coming in future years, I will propose spending those revenues on property tax relief and additional funding for education. We certainly can't count on that money yet, but I'm going to work very hard with the National Governors Association and with our congressional delegation to make the streamlined sales tax project a priority so we can make those commitments to property taxpayers and to educating our children sooner rather than later.
The Board of Regents is requesting more FTEs in this budget proposal. Some of those students will be graduate students. We allocated $3.6 million for university research and our universities are also winning millions of dollars in grants from the federal government and the private sector in competition with universities from other states. They use those grant monies to employ students to do research here in South Dakota. It's a win-win-win situation. The necessary research gets done, our students earn their masters or doctorate degrees, and they are paid for the research work they do. Another name for these full-time research jobs and student research jobs is more FTEs or Full Time Equivalents. It adds up to over 146 FTEs, but since many of the student researchers are part-time, 146 FTEs could mean as many as 300 young people working on research and earning higher degrees in South Dakota using federal grant dollars and private grant dollars. So, if we can't get the FTE approval from the legislature, those students would have to do their graduate work and research in other states, not in South Dakota.
Health
Launching a Web site designed to give South Dakotans reliable information about making healthy choices of food and activities. In March, we'll hold a statewide summit on nutrition and physical activity to kick-off the Healthy SD Initiative.
Drugs
Regulate the sale of products containing pseudoephedrine, which is used to manufacture meth and revise the definition of abused or neglected children so that when we find children whose parents or guardians have put them in an environment where meth is being used or distributed, we can take those children out of there and place them with relatives or foster parents.
http://www.state.sd.us/Online%20Docs/STATEOFTHESTATESPEECH2005.pdf
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