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 Phil Bredeson's State of the State Address
Early Learning
-- Invest $25 million to continue meeting the requests of communities across our state for Pre-K classrooms. That is not enough to fund all of the requests that we have, but will keep us moving forward.
Finance
-- Fully fund the BEP (Basic Education Program). Incorporate the remainder of the tobacco tax money—we estimate it at $87 million—to further fill out the framework of BEP 2.0.
Financial Aid
-- Change the grade point average for retention of the scholarship from 3.0 to 2.75 (to better accommodate for the increased difficulty of college studies and to help address the fact that nearly 80% of the scholarship winners lose their scholarship during their time in college).
-- Keep the merit scholarship intact, but expand assistance to others as well. Take about half of the unallocated lottery reserves, $200 million specifically, and use it to establish an endowment for the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation (TSAC). Between the earnings from this endowment and a small additional appropriation from the annual lottery surplus, we will be able to assist financially another 12-15,000 deserving and hard-working Tennessee students to earn a college education.
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