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 Deval Patrick's State of the State Address
Economic/Workforce Development, Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance--Facilities
-- Use federal stimulus package to help create jobs. Jobs to extend broadband services; install solar panels, wind turbines, and weather stripping; rebuild roads, rails and bridges; modernize our health care records management system and build schools.
Finance, Finance--District, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Foresee the need for another $1.1 billion in cuts and other budget solves this month.
-- Sustain the current level of education funding for 2010.
-- Propose flexibility concerning local contributions to public schools--to free up local funds for municipal services like fire, police and elder services.
Finance, Finance--District, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Federal, Federal--Aid
-- Use federal stimulus education funds to bring all state cities and towns up to education foundation levels for fiscal year 2010 and 2011.
Finance, Finance--District, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Propose an Emergency Recovery Plan to further close the budget gap (a lot of the measures mentioned here will be included in that plan). Plan will include another round of deep cuts from the Executive Branch. I ask the Legislature and my fellow constitutional officers to also make cuts.
Finance, Finance--District, Finance--Lotteries, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Cut additional local assistance and lottery funding.
-- Ask the legislature for a one-penny statewide increase in the meals and hotels tax, to be redistributed according to the lottery formula to all cities and towns.
Finance, Finance--District, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Provide alternative revenues to help offset the impact of the budget cuts. Eliminate the property tax exemption for telephone poles and telecom switching stations, and to allow cities and towns, at their option, to levy an additional penny on meals and hotel stays.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- File a balanced budget proposal later this month for the coming fiscal year. Given the decline in state revenue, spending must be at levels significantly below what they have been in better times. Local services will be cut, and in many cases, police, firefighters and teachers will face layoffs.
State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Ask the Legislature to join me in a season of significant government reform--including pension reform, ethics and lobbying reform, and municipal reform.
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