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 Jay Nixon's State of the State Address
Alternative Education, Finance, Safety/Student Discipline
-- Increase funding for the Safe Schools program, which promotes alternative schools for disruptive students.
Career/Technical Education, Finance
-- Continue funding for career education.
Early Learning, Early Learning--Finance, Finance
-- Propose a larger investment in early childhood education.
-- Increase funding for First Steps, a program that helps children get off on the right foot.
Early Learning, Finance, Finance--Funding Formulas, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary, Teaching Quality
-- Fully fund the education foundation formula. Even in these difficult economic times, that is not negotiable. Must prepare every child to compete from pre-school to college.
-- Propose more than 3 billion in state aid to classrooms.
-- Continue funding for the Small Schools Program.
-- Support our teachers.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Invest in technology, science, and innovation to create the next-generation jobs we need to compete in the 21st-Century.
-- Create new jobs now.
-- Proposed (several weeks ago) the initial pieces of our Show Me Jobs plan--a series of steps to create jobs and stimulate economic growth.
-- Signed (several weeks ago) three executive orders to help spur job creation.
-- Proposed a new low-interest loan program for small businesses.
-- Create an Automotive Jobs Task Force to revitalize the automobile industry in Missouri.
-- Expand The Quality Jobs Act.
-- Increase funding for job development and training programs by 38 percent, despite budget problems.
-- Ask the legislature to send me an emergency jobs plan before the March break. I'll sign a comprehensive, fiscally sound package.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary
-- Create and fund the Caring for Missourians program--an initiative to coordinate efforts between our two and four-year institutions to train our next generation of health care workers.
Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Established an Economic Stimulus Coordination Council to ensure that the state is prepared to wisely invest any federal stimulus package funds.
Financial Aid, Finance (Postsecondary), Minority/Diversity Issues, Postsecondary, Rural, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Hard-to-Staff Schools, Teaching Quality--Recruitment/Retention, Tuition/Fees, Urban
-- Make the dream of a college education a reality for more Missouri families.
-- Propose that state colleges and universities receive the same level of support next year that they currently receive. In exchange for the state's continued level of support, the presidents of the state's public colleges and universities have agreed not to increase tuition on Missouri students.
-- Introduce and fund the Missouri Promise, which builds upon the A+ Schools Program (allows students at eligible high schools to get their two-year degrees at community colleges tuition free). Under the Missouri Promise, students who take advantage of A+ scholarships may continue at a Missouri public college or university and complete their four-year degree debt free, as long as they keep a B average and give back to their community.
-- Continue funding scholarship programs such as the Missouri Teacher Education Program, Bright Flight, the Missouri Minority Teaching Program, the Urban Flight and Rural Needs Program.
Finance, Parent/Family
-- Continue funding for the Parents as Teachers program.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Face a significant budget shortfall.
-- Bring our budget into balance by making difficult decisions, and by making government more efficient.
-- Will not raise taxes on families or businesses.
-- Face an immediate shortfall in fiscal year 2009 of more than a quarter of a billion dollars.
-- Face even larger economic problems for fiscal year 2010. Thus, my budget eliminates or cuts 50 programs and proposes the elimination of more than 1,300 positions (will save nearly $200 million in overhead).
-- Appoint a Taxpayer Protection Commission to implement top-to-bottom performance reviews of every agency and program to identify what's working and what's not working.
-- Review all long-term government contracts.
http://governor.mo.gov/newsroom/speeches/2009/2009_Missouri_State_of_the_State_Address.htm | |
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