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2009 State of the State Addresses
Education-Related Proposals

Education Commission of the States • 700 Broadway, Suite 810 • Denver, CO 80203-3442 • 303.299.3600 • fax 303.296.8332 • www.ecs.org

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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- Oklahoma
Governor Brad Henry's State of the State Address

Economic/Workforce Development
-- Establish a permanent funding source for the EDGE Endowment, which nurtures research and enterprise that will create good-paying jobs.

Finance, Finance--Resource Efficiency, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Face a budget hole of nearly $600 million.   
-- Ask state agencies to tighten their budgets.  
-- Put some projects on hold.  
-- Propose a balanced budget that makes precise, while protecting vital state functions such as education, healthcare, transportation and public safety.
-- Challenge all state agencies to reduce energy consumption by 10 percent by 2010.
-- Protect the gains we have made in the classroom.

Health
-- Continue to support the Crystal Darkness Initiative that fights meth addiction, which still preys on our children.

High School, High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates, Mentoring/Tutoring, Public Involvement
-- Propose a "graduation coaches" program that will bring volunteers from our communities into our schools to serve as guides, mentors and champions for students at risk of dropping out.  

http://www.gov.ok.gov/stateofthestate2009.php
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