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 Jennifer Granholm's State of the State Address
Adult Learning/Continuing Education, Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Financial Aid, Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Continue to support the Worker Left Behind initiative which trains workers for skilled jobs available in Michigan. This program provides free college tuition, up to $5,000 per year for two years. Currently 52,000 citizens are being trained through the initiative.
At-Risk, Economic/Workforce Development, Finance (Postsecondary), Financial Aid, Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Create Promise Zones in 10 Michigan communities struggling with high rates of poverty--use the promise of free college education to spur greatness in our kids and economic development in those communities.
Business Involvement, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Technology
-- Reform state government. I have asked Lt. Governor Cherry to lead a comprehensive effort to dramatically change the shape and size of state government—reducing the number of our departments from 18 to 8, reforming our civil service system, creating public/private partnerships and infusing technology everywhere.
-- Urge the State Officers Compensation Commission to reduce the salaries of all state elected officials in Michigan by 10 percent.
Community Colleges, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Ask state universities and community colleges to freeze tuition for the next academic year.
Completion/Postsec. Graduation, Postsecondary
-- Double the number of college graduates in the state.
Comprehensive School Reform, High School, High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates, School Districts, Student Achievement
-- Help school districts replace high schools that don't work, with small, rigorous ones that do, through the 21st Century Schools Fund. Plans are already under way to create more than 25 of these rigorous new high schools that keep kids in school and put them on the path to success in college and careers.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Fight for good paying jobs and educate and train Michigan citizens to fill those jobs.
-- Continue to make renewable energy a key focus of our economic development strategy.
-- Diversify our economy without deserting our major industry, the American automobile industry.
-- Announce that: Wonderstruck Animation Studios will invest $86 million to build a new studio in Detroit; Stardock Systems, a digital gaming manufacturer, will build its production facilities in Plymouth; and Motown Motion Pictures will invest $54 million to build their new film studios at a former GM plant in Pontiac. Motown Motion Pictures alone will create 3,600 jobs.
-- Announce that Great Lakes Turbine will locate in Monroe, creating hundreds more jobs building wind turbines.
-- Create jobs by reducing the state's reliance on fossil fuels for generating electricity by 45 percent, by 2020. We will do this through increased renewable energy, gains in energy efficiency and other new technologies. Instead of spending nearly $2 billion a year importing coal or natural gas from other states we'll be spending our energy dollars on Michigan wind turbines, Michigan solar panels and Michigan energy-efficiency devices, all designed, manufactured and installed by Michigan workers.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance--Facilities
-- Create the Michigan Energy Corps to put thousands of unemployed citizens back to work this year, weatherizing homes, schools and other public buildings, installing renewable energy technology, and turning our abundant natural resources into renewable fuels.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Postsecondary, School Districts
-- Require cities, townships, counties, school districts, colleges and universities to adopt their own Buy Michigan First policies.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Realize that the state's budget situation is difficult, but it pales in comparison to the situation many states are in.
Mathematics, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Professional Development
-- Give teachers, through the Algebra for All initiative, the professional development they need to teach algebra in a proven way that ensures all kids master it. The program will begin this summer.
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/gov/SOS2009_265915_7.pdf | |
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