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 Bill Richardson's State of the State Address
At-Risk, Early Learning, Early Learning--Finance, Early Learning--Readiness, Finance, Pre-Kindergarten
-- Continue to invest in Pre-Kindergarten-- to close the achievement gap and help students enter school ready to learn.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Form a "Green Jobs Cabinet" to build an aggressive clean energy strategy, so our state educates, trains, and prepares a clean energy workforce. I will issue an executive order directing key state agencies—from education to workforce development, and from economic development to energy—to form this cabinet. Education is the key to a green workforce.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Propose a four-part economic security plan: (1) Create new jobs, (2) Build a better workforce; (3) Renew our role as an innovation state; and (4) Provide a safety net to catch those who fall.
-- Propose a balanced budget to accomplish the economic plan--that targets cuts, maintains needed services, makes strategic investments to create more jobs and does not raise taxes.
-- Continue stalled or stopped state projects that create jobs or protect public safety.
-- Reinvest funds from stalled or stopped state projects that do not create jobs or protect public safety into this year's budget.
-- Increase the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit to help wind, and biomass projects boost their operations.
-- Extend a tax credit to small businesses.
Elementary Education, Health, Health--Nutrition
-- Expand the healthy breakfast program to 270 elementary schools (more than 100 thousand elementary students).
-- Provide children healthy food choices.
-- Ensure children get physical education.
Finance, Finance--Funding Formulas
-- Change the school funding formula--upon direct approval of the voters.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Draw down the rainy day fund from ten to eight percent---to preserve our high bond rating and help balance the budget.
Financial Aid, Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Continue the state's zero-percent tuition credit policy and hold down rising tuition costs.
-- Change the College Affordability Fund and the 3% scholarships fund to direct 100 percent of grants to students with financial need.
Health, Safety/Student Discipline
-- Propose legislation that makes recruiting people into a criminal street gang a crime and makes recruiting a minor into a criminal street gang a felony.
Mathematics, Student Achievement, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Preparation
-- Improve student achievement in mathematics by increasing the math requirement for new elementary and middle school teachers.
Postsecondary
-- Find a fiscally responsible way to assure that Santa Fe continues to host a four-year college, like the College of Santa Fe, to inspire and educate our next generation of actors and artists, painters and public servants.
Scheduling/School Calendar
-- Propose legislation to tighten the school calendar to make sure our students receive a full 180 days of instruction.
-- Continue before- and after-school programs.
State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Create a Task Force on Fair and Equal Pay (created by executive order) to look for ethnic, racial and gender gaps as well as job segregation in every state agency, and offer solutions for closing those gaps.
-- Establish an ethics commission to provide independent oversight of all branches of state government.
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