The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2008 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 Butch Otter's State of the State/State Budget Message
Quality Assurance
In conjunction with the state superintendent and business and education leaders, develop a plan for making Idaho the nation's leader in quality, cost-effective education, with an initial focus on K through 12.
--Improve how Idaho students acquire the skills they need for technology-driven workplace changes and competing in the global economy.
-- Assess what we spend for education and how we spend it. We'll then compare that with investment levels and best practices of high-performing systems here and abroad.
Community Colleges
-- Continue startup financial commitment of $5 million for the foreseeable future, as reflected in my budget.
-- Double the amount of funding allocated to community colleges from state liquor sales. The College of Southern Idaho and North Idaho College now get $150,000 a year. My plan calls for CSI, NIC and the College of Western Idaho each to get $200,000 – for a total of $600,000.
Financial Aid
-- Provide an additional $50 million for the Opportunity Scholarship Trust Fund.
Teacher Compensation
-- Continue to ensure that state employee pay is competitive with comparable private-sector jobs. And we must advance the important cause of ensuring that Idaho's public school teachers are properly paid.
Drugs/Alcohol
-- Launch the Idaho Meth Project statewide media campaign.
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