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 Mitch Daniels' State of the State Address
Finance -- Property Tax Relief
-- Implement permanent protection against the return of unaffordable taxes, through a permanent, constitutional cap of one percent of a home's value, an absolute ceiling
beyond which no homeowner would ever pass. Make the cuts further secure by lifting permanently the costs of child welfare protection and school operations off the property
taxpayer altogether. Reform the state's unfair assessment system, with its unexplained inaccuracies and its unequal treatment of like properties.
-- Put genuine limits on total local spending and borrowing, with none of the loopholes and exceptions that have permitted such spending to balloon in recent years.
-- Give citizens what they have in most states, a final say over major capital projects through a straightforward referendum.
-- Add a penny to the sales tax as the fairest source of funds for relief
-- Do all this in ways that preserve local control over the operations of schools and the setting of local priorities. Fix authority and accountability for controlling total spending where it should be, on the elected leadership of each community, and end the era of micromanagement from Indianapolis.
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