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 John E. Baldacci's State of the State Address
Community Colleges, Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary
-- Combine the efforts of the Department of Labor, Maine State Housing, the Public Utilities Commission and our universities and community colleges to create a green-collar workforce.
-- Propose an advanced technology and engineering campus as part of our redevelopment plans for Brunswick Naval Air Station. The center will bring together the University of Maine and Southern Maine Community College in a joint venture that will support the economic development of the Midcoast while also training students for jobs of the future. This collaboration between the university and community college should be a model for greater cooperation between our institutions of higher learning.
Economic/Workforce Development, Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Use federal support to build roads, repair bridges, help people stay well and create jobs.
-- Use money to preserve thousands more jobs at our schools.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Submitted $6.1 billion dollar budget in January--reduces state spending by about $200 million dollars.
-- Execute a comprehensive development strategy--help regions identify their best assets and develop plans to build upon them. It's economic development from the ground up, instead of the top down.
-- Balance the budget.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary, School to Work
-- Proposed a three-year, $306 million dollar investment to create jobs, strengthen our economy and build our intellectual capacity by supporting higher education and innovation.
-- Create a Weatherization Corps of young workers, who will learn important life and job skills right on the job. A joint program between the Department of Labor, Jobs for Maine Graduates, local CAP agencies and Maine Housing will train about 100 students to work on energy related projects.
-- Capitalize on new jobs and build the industries of the 21st Century by investing in education, innovation and research and development.
-- Realize that success today depends on a college education.
-- Propose significant investments in Maine's institutions of higher learning so they can serve more students and make energy efficient improvements that will save money that can be put toward the classroom.
Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Graduate/Professional Education
-- Propose using $3.5 million dollars in one-time recovery funds to help launch two innovative medical schools that will train the doctors we need in Maine. This will not require building new buildings--Tufts University will partner with Maine Medical Center and the University of Vermont will partner with Eastern Maine Medical Center and the University of Maine.
Governance, Leadership, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Continue forward with the reform of K-12 administration and oppose referendum to repeal the state's school consolidation law (requires Maine's 290 school administrative units to be reorganized into about 80 regional units). We must stop wasting money on unnecessary bureaucracies and administrations.
Parent/Family, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Technology, Technology--Laptop/Related Initiatives
-- Revamp our laptop program for use of the entire family. The Department of Education and the Department of Labor will work to make sure every computer has software preloaded to connect students in seventh through 12th-grade and their families with the services available at our State's CareerCenters.
http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=Gov+News&id=69160&v=Article-2006 | |
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