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 Donald L. Carcieri's State of the State Message
Compensation -- Health Insurance Benefits
-- Remove the designation of any specific health care provider from all local contracts. It will allow one, umbrella health care contract that would include all state, municipal, and school employees. This will save tens of millions of dollars for property taxpayers by creating competitive bidding by the health insurers. Using this approach, the state will achieve over $41M in savings over the life of the contract.
Finance
--Reduce overall state spending by $300M -- impacting all state employees, all state vendors, contractors and providers, and all municipalities. A reduction of this magnitude will reach across the three major areas of all state spending.
1) Personnel expenses that include: (wages, health care costs, and pensions);
2) Welfare, social service, and entitlement programs; and
3) Payments from the state to municipal governments for schools and other services.
-- Ask the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) to undertake a comprehensive review of the cost of our existing school system.
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