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
Economic/ Workforce Development
$150,000 for the Connecticut Career Resource Network to help students, teachers and guidance counselors to be prepared for the 21st century workforce.

Economic/ Workforce Development
$3 million for a new loan forgiveness program for college students who choose to work in "high needs" fields. $1.5 million will be available to students who plan to teach math or science.

Early childhood education
Increase the number of inner city children in preschool to 500.

School Readiness
Increase the School Readiness per child funding from $7,750 to $8,025 per year.

Early Childhood Education
Add funding for five more communities to add preschool programs.

Kindergarten
Initiate the creation of a true kindergarten assessment tool.

Charter Schools
$1.7 million for the expansion of charter school seats for schools that have natural grade growth.

Finance
For the Education Costs Sharing Grant the budget includes direct educational grants to cities and towns of $2,026,000,000. This represents an increase of $142 million in direct educational aid.
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