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 Pat Quinn's State of the State Address
Accountability, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Invest in quality and accountable education.
-- Will not cut back on education.
Community Colleges, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance (Postsecondary), Postsecondary
-- Increase funding for secondary education.
-- Commit 40 million dollars to community colleges and higher education.
Early Learning, Early Learning--Finance, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Increase funding for early childhood education.
Economic/Workforce Development, Facilities
-- Make creating an environment that provides useful, important jobs my top priority.
-- Urge quick passage of the "Illinois Jobs Now" plan, a 26 billion dollar plan to support nearly 340,000 jobs across the state. This plan includes four billion dollars to repair schools and build new ones.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Urge approval of the Illinois Economic Recovery and Tax Reform Act of 2009. The Act includes a sales tax holiday for ten days in August on the purchase of school clothes and school supplies.
-- Realize that education is the key to equal opportunity and economic empowerment.
Elementary Education, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Increase funding for elementary education.
Faculty, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Order state employees to take furloughs of four days.
-- Require across-the-board reductions in grant programs.
-- Make targeted cost-reductions at every state agency.
-- Fix and modernize the state's under-funded public pension systems (e.g. raise the retirement age for new workers and cap cost-of-living increases).
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Face an e11.5 billion-dollar deficit and a mountain of unpaid bills.
-- Propose a budget plan that cuts costs and rescues our state's finances while raising ethical standards.
-- Appoint a new Taxpayer Action Board to evaluate all state spending and all programs.
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