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 Dave Heineman's State of the State Address
Community Colleges, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Postsecondary, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Special Education
-- Place a special priority on funding our children's education.
-- Invest an additional $100 million in state aid to education, by increasing special education funding by $16.8 million, providing an additional $25.6 million to the University of Nebraska, and providing approximately $4 million for state and community colleges.
-- Invest a record $1.7 billion annually in K-12 and higher education in the coming biennium.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Create jobs to keep our sons and daughters in Nebraska.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Keep Nebraska as one of the few states not currently facing a financial crisis.
-- Work with state agencies to encourage each department to find ways of saving money during the current fiscal year. State agencies that reduce spending now will have my support, and the support of your Appropriations Committee Chairman, in applying that savings toward next year's budget.
Finance, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Ensure that there will be no tax increases.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Maintain a strong cash reserve in the budget to account for contingent liabilities, such as teacher and state employee pension losses due to a declining stock market.
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