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 Jon Corzine's State of the State Address
At-Risk, At-Risk--Foster Care
-- Continue to support the newly created Department of Children and Families in its efforts to help at-risk and foster children.
At-Risk, Equity, Finance, Finance--Funding Formulas
-- Continue to seek court approval for the new school funding formula, which recognizes that 50 percent of the state's disadvantaged students live beyond the borders of Abbott school districts.
Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Help New Jersey citizens cope with these challenging economic times--this must be the first, second and third priority.
-- Plan, as the national recession continues to take a toll on our revenues, to recommend additional, painful cuts. However, we must continue to do everything possible to limit the impact of cuts on our children's education.
-- Encourage new lending through innovative credit facilities and placing deposits with New Jersey's community-oriented banks.
-- Commit, before any federal infrastructure investment program, $4.7 billion in high-return investments--saving or creating as many as 42,000 New Jersey jobs.
-- Recommend giving local governments the option of deferring a percentage of their employee pension payments.
Curriculum, High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates, Standards
-- Work to upgrade standards, curricula, and graduation requirements in all of our schools.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--Facilities
-- Create jobs by accelerating public investments in roads, bridges, school construction, and the new mass transit tunnel under the Hudson.
Finance, Financial Aid, Postsecondary
-- Continue to expand financial aid for the state's low- and moderate-income college students that need help.
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates
-- Continue to collaborate with Colin and Alma Powell in their effort to substantially lower dropout rates.
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