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 Matt Blunt's State of the State Address
Economic Development -- STEM
-- Increase investment in math and science education. To ensure that the next generation enjoys even greater prosperity, we must provide our students with a world-class education in math, engineering, technology, and science.
-- Invest $5 million to create 100 technologically-advanced classrooms and to equip 300 classrooms with advanced math and science curriculum.
Exceptional Children
-- Invest $5 million for the Thompson Center in Columbia, a world-class treatment and research facility we will help build right here in central Missouri. Combined, this funding will
improve the lives of Missouri families struggling with autism.
Extended School Days
-- Invest $1.1 million for after-school programs, which help students learn, stay fit, stay safe, and stay out of trouble.
Finance
-- Over four years, we will have invested an additional $1.2 billion in education.
-- Significantly increase funding at all levels – from pre-school to graduate school. Elementary and secondary schools receive an increase of $121 million, or more than 4 percent from last year. Missouri colleges and universities receive more than $54.2 million in direct funding, an increase of more than 6 percent. That includes funding to train more doctors, nurses, dentists, and pharmacists to meet the health care needs of Missourians.
-- Stop excessive local increases in property tax by developing tax reform that includes truth in taxation and mandatory levy rollbacks.
Financial Aid
-- Continue to increase scholarship funding -- more than $25 million for A+ student scholarships, helping more than 20,000 Missourians attend community colleges, nearly doubling the program's funding since January of 2005.
-- Quadruple investment in needs-based scholarships by allocating $100 million for Access Missouri scholarships.
High School
-- Invest three-quarters of a million dollars to train nearly 1,000 new Advanced Placement teachers and to help more than 6,000 Missouri students take Advanced Placement tests.
Postsecondary
-- Invest in better classrooms and labs at the higher education level.
-- Make further investments such as $31 million for construction, renovation, and improvement of the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center at the University of Missouri, and another $15 million for the Pharmacy and Nursing Building at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Safety/Student Discipline
-- Increase total funding to $1.5 million for Cyber Crime Task Forces grants so that law enforcement can catch predators before they harm a Missouri child.
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