ECS
2006 State of the State Addresses
Education-Related Proposals

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The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2006 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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State of the State Address
Teaching Quality – Recruitment and Retention
Invest $105 million dollars in teachers, which would result in an average pay raise of $1500 dollars per year.

Faculty
$31 million dollar investment to retain higher education faculty.

Workforce/Economic Development
$15 million dollar investment to expand and retrain the workforce by creating businesses, college and training program partnerships.
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