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 Mark Sanford's State of the State Address
Charter Schools, Choice
-- Look for ways to ensure the state's educational system provides choices that reflect the individual diversity found in the more than 700,000 students in our state. If a school isn't working for a child, the child's parent or guardian ought to be given the option to go to the school that works best for the child. Lack of school choice may impact a number of things outside of education, such as rural economic development, or increases to property tax bills across the state.
-- Pass a Charter School Parity bill.
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Update the Employment Security Commission, to better people's employment opportunities.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Provide lasting jobs and economic growth through the tax reform proposal introduced last month.
-- Introduce the option of a flat tax of 3.65 percent on the individual income tax rate. This proposal works by allowing each citizen each year to pick between paying the current seven percent income tax rate, or forgoing their exemptions and paying a flat 3.65 percent. The result would be $131 million in income tax relief, paid for by a 30-cent increase to the state's cigarette tax, elimination of three state sales tax holidays, and a $3 per ton tipping fee for garbage disposal.
--Eliminate the state's corporate income tax over a 10-year-time period, taking the rate from 5 percent to zero.
Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Link the price of higher education to its cost; by capping tuition increases, which would force coordination.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Prohibit one-time money from going to start, or fund, recurring programs.
-- Find ways to better spend monies currently in the system.
-- Enact education funding that follows the child.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Restructure state government by: passing the "South Carolina Restructuring Act" (H 3147/S 0208); letting the people decide whether a host of constitutional officers should be appointed rather than elected; consolidating agencies that perform overlapping functions; making state government more transparent; and instituting spending limits (i.e. limit government's growth to population plus inflation, then allocate everything beyond this to first paying down unfunded liabilities and then either set money aside for a rainy day or return it to the taxpayer).
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