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 Haley Barbour's State of the State Address
Adult Learning/Continuing Education, Community Colleges, Early Learning, Economic/Workforce Development, Postsecondary
-- View education as the number one economic development and quality of life issue. The term "education" includes not only K-12 but also workforce development at state community colleges, commercially viable research at state universities and early childhood education: all in all, lifelong learning.
Adult Learning/Continuing Education, Economic/Workforce Development
-- Keep funding workforce development and job training at current or higher levels
-- Help more of our workers upgrade their skills--the key to economic growth.
Charter Schools
-- Urge the legislature to expand the charter school law, which sunsets this year.
Early Learning, Early Learning--Business Involvement, For-Profit/Proprietary, Pre-Kindergarten
-- Support the creation, from the existing pre-K infrastructure, of a program to get children ready for school by age five. The private sector has joined the Department of Education, The Early Childhood Institute at Mississippi State, and scores of pre-school programs – whether church, for profit or not, or Head Start – in this effort.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--Bonds
-- Consider job creation the number one goal.
-- Ask the legislature for bonding authority for protecting and increasing jobs, upon adoption of the federal stimulus package.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance (Postsecondary), Postsecondary
-- Ask legislature to fund higher education, universities and community colleges, at levels that allow it to play the critical roles it has in generating economic growth.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Cut funds of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP). State revenue for this fiscal year, which ends June 30, is expected to fall between one hundred seventy-five and three hundred ten million dollars below the budgeted level. State law authorizes the governor to cut any department or agency by five percent of its appropriation; however, no department or agency may be cut by more than five percent until every department and agency has been cut five percent. Thus, cuts must be made in MAEP.
Governance, Leadership, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Reform state government, to give agency leaders maximum flexibility to run their agencies effectively. Agency leaders need lump sum appropriations and most need relief from Personnel Board rules, if they are to reorganize their departments to do the job expected of them, with reduced appropriations.
High School, High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates
-- Continue to support the program to redesign high school and reduce dropouts.
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