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 M. Michael Rounds's State of the State Address
Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development
-- Attain a goal of the 2010 Initiative by doubling visitor spending from $600 million to $1.2 billion by the year 2010.
--Continue to approve qualified companies for REDI loans, which in turn will create jobs.
Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development, Postsecondary, Science
-- Partner with the Board of Regents to renovate and revitalize the science facilities at the state's public universities through a $65 million bonding plan--to assist students and state economic development plans.
Federal, Finance, Rural, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Compensation, Teaching Quality--Hard-to-Staff Schools, Teaching Quality--Recruitment/Retention
-- Propose $4,000,000 in state funds to increase teacher salaries, pay teachers for additional training, and to help school districts hire teachers they need for their schools.
-- Continue participation in the federal INCENTIVESplus program, a $20 million grant over 5 years, to attract teachers to high-need schools, primarily in rural areas.
Finance--Resource Efficiency, Postsecondary
-- Remove incandescent light bulbs from the state contract, so that lights in state government buildings will be replaced with energy efficient compact fluorescent bulbs.
-- Require Energy StarŪ requirements in the specs of all bids for appliances used in state government.
-- Require all future state buildings and major renovations to be built to meet LEED Silver rating standards.
-- Propose the Energy Conservation Revolving Loan Fund--a low interest revolving loan fund, in that when the money comes back, it can be loaned out again and again to schools, cities, counties, universities, tech schools, and state agencies that have developed good ways to save tax dollars by becoming more energy efficient. Preference will be given to energy efficiency improvement projects with the shortest payback period.
Finance, Financial Aid, Postsecondary, Tuition/Fees
-- Expand Opportunity Scholarships by lowering the ACT requirement from 24 to 23 to allow more than 200 more students to qualify.
Finance, High School, Postsecondary, Technology, Technology--Laptop/Related Initiatives
-- Propose $2,954,000 for year 3 of the Classroom Connections Program, which provides classroom laptops for children. This would provide 4,600 more laptop computers for high school students and 400 more for their teachers--would raise the percentage of state high school students with computer access to 38 percent.
-- Migrate the state's six public universities toward a mobile computing environment--so that students are on a path toward using computers for learning in public schools and universities are prepared to accept them.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Increase by 2.5 percent the per student allocation for state aid to local schools.
-- Give local schools extra money if they have declining enrollments or increasing enrollments.
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