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 Mike Beebe's State of the State Address
Adult Learning/Continuing Education, Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development, Finance
-- Believe that education and economic development are intertwined and inseparable, and one cannot fully succeed without the other.
-- Continue to support the Arkansas Economic Development Commission to attract new jobs and industry.
-- Replenish the Governor's Quick Action Closing Fund with $50 million over the next two years, to position Arkansas to be at full speed when the recession lifts.
-- Continue to work through the Workforce Cabinet agencies to educate, train, and re-train our workforce.
At-Risk--Foster Care
-- Work to place more foster children in qualified homes.
Early Learning, Pre-Kindergarten
-- Continue commitment to pre-Kindergarten.
Finance, Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Propose increases in funding for only public education and the Division of Children and Family Services--public education remains the highest priority.
-- Reach beyond the legal definition of "adequacy" by providing school districts with additional per-student funds. Add 234 dollars of additional per-student funding over the next two years, and give school districts additional one-time enhancement money of 35 dollars per student.
Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary, Pre-Kindergarten, Summer School
-- Prepare students to attend postsecondary education by increasing overall education funding, through pre-k, Smart Core and stronger college prep programs, and now through pilot programs for after-school and summer learning.
Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Postsecondary, Financial Aid, Tuition/Fees
-- Improve our scholarship programs so that scholarships reach more students, and the amount of assistance they receive is greater.
-- Broaden the GO Opportunities Grant (a need-based financial-aid program initiated in 2007) to include more non-traditional students, to help additional students in two-year programs, and to expand the total financial support available.
-- Rectify the dilemma of state merit scholarships never reaching the students who qualify for them.
-- Make sure scholarship money remains available once promised to qualified students.
-- Open the doors of higher education to students who qualify for both need-based and merit-based aid, while increasing scholarship amounts.
-- Lessen and simplify scholarship paperwork, with the State providing a single application listing the college assistance available, rather than students and their families having to seek out their best match for financial aid.
Finance, Finance--Lotteries, Finance (Postsecondary), Postsecondary, Financial Aid, Tuition/Fees
-- Structure the lottery to be as efficient and as transparent as possible.
Finance, Finance--Funding Formulas, Finance (Postsecondary), Postsecondary,
-- Adjust the higher-education funding formula to stress graduation rates, rather than the number of students that happen to be on campus.
Health, Health--Mental Health
-- Expand statewide coordinated school-health system to provide new resources and equipment for our school nurses and in-school mental-health services for our children.
-- Explore new outlets of care for autistic children.
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