The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2009 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 Bob Riley's State of the State Address
Distance Learning/Virtual University, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Mathematics, Reading/Literacy, Science
-- Protect funding for the education programs that we know work: the Reading Initiative, the Math and Science Initiative, and distance learning.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Pass the Alabama Economic Recovery Plan, which includes a Back-to-Work Tax Credit of $500 to encourage companies to hire unemployed workers and a Targeted Job Creation Tax Credit (a $1,500 incentive over three years for each new job created in counties with the highest unemployment levels).
-- Make more industries eligible for our economic incentives--knowledge-based industries, such as research and development facilities, corporate headquarters and other entrepreneurial ventures.
Finance, Finance--Lotteries
-- Disagree with those who say that if gambling was expanded and taxed, education funding would not have to be reduced.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Balance the budget.
-- Will not raise taxes. Alabama is weathering this storm better than most.
-- Froze new government hires, employee pay raises and new vehicle purchases.
-- Directed state department heads to find even deeper savings.
-- Overhaul the state ethics code.
http://www.governorpress.state.al.us/pr/sp-2009-02-03-sos2009.asp | |
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