ECS
2007 State of the State Addresses
Education-Related Proposals

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The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2007 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 Brian Schweitzer's State of the State Address
Kindergarten
Fund full-day kindergarten.

Teaching Quality -- Recruitment/Retention
Invest money to attract and retain new teachers.

Teaching Quality -- Hard-to-Staff Schools
Grant loan forgiveness for a portion of new teachers' debt every year they teach for up to four years if they agree to teach in rural schools.

Tuition/Fees
Invest an additional $50 million in higher education to keep tuition from increasing for two years.

Financial Aid -- Scholarships
Invest in the Best and Brightest Scholarship Program for high school studnet s to graduate from Montana colleges and universities.

Technology
Create a supercomputer system at Montana Tech.

Science
Invest $26 million for the chemistry building at Montana State University.
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