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 Steven L. Beshear's State of the State Address
Adult Learning/Continuing Education, Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development
-- Modernize and restructure incentive programs to make them more responsive to today's economic needs and to give us flexibility to compete for new jobs.
-- Support existing Kentucky businesses that seek to invest in their facilities and in the continued education of their workforce. This includes extending job-creation incentives for the first time to small businesses.
-- Keep the comprehensive energy plan (released in November) a top state priority, as it is an economic opportunity of immense proportions.
Business Involvement, State Policymaking
-- Review the Kentucky Education Reform Act. Bring together education, business and legislative leaders to review the act and renew and re-energize our commitment to education.
Early Learning, Early Learning--Readiness
-- Prepare children to enter the K-12 system.
-- Unveil (next week) a task force on early childhood development and education that will streamline and strengthen our network of child services and programs to create better coordination, less duplication and more consistent and higher standards.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Fill a $456 million hole in the state budget by June 30 with an additional $150 million in spending cuts, limited transfers of funds and new revenue from increased taxes on tobacco. Already this year we have reduced spending by more than $430 million, shrunk the state workforce by 2,000 employees, we've cut travel, we've reduced administrative costs by restructuring and conducted examinations of efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues, Postsecondary, Teaching Quality
-- Make classroom teaching and learning a priority for state investment.
-- Make higher education a priority for state investment.
-- Increase significantly our tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products--to protect investment in education.
Postsecondary
-- Continue to support the energy research and development work being conducted at state universities, particularly the University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky University.
Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Continue to protect the retirements of teachers and others.
http://www.governor.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/779887EE-31B7-430F-A055-FCB87FA67568/0/20090204_SCAddress.pdf | |
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