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 Jon E. Baldacci's State of the State Address
Early Learning
-- It's my goal that children start school ready to learn, and graduate from college ready and able to succeed here in Maine.
-- Continue to work with more than 200 Maine business and community leaders to transform the Children's Cabinet Task Force on Early Childhood into a Children's Growth Council.
Economic Development
-- Keep more of our home-grown graduates here, and open the door of opportunity for the next generation of Maine entrepreneurs and leaders.
Finance
-- By the end of next year we will have invested more than $1 billion new State dollars in local education.
-- Bring together three of the largest purchasers of health care in the State for a new initiative to save taxpayer money and provide better care to consumers. The Maine State Employees Health Commission, the University of Maine System and the Maine Education Association will join forces and put their enormous buying power to work to lower prescription drug costs.
Financial Aid
-- The Alfond College Challenge provides a $500 dollar education grant to every child born in Maine that will help them start a college savings account. It began last week in Augusta and will expand statewide in 2009. Working through the Finance Authority of Maine and in cooperation with Maine's hospitals, families in this State will have been given a head start on higher education.
School Districts
-- We are on our way to a new structure that will better serve our people. It will save taxpayers money and provide a better education for our children. Legislation introduced this year and already approved by the Education Committee will further strengthen the new law (that law reduces the number of school administrative units from 290 to 80.) Continue with the work of reducing the number of school administrative units.
http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=Gov+News&id=48517&v=Article-2006 | |
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