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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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- Utah
Governor Jon Huntsman's State of the State Address

Business Involvement, Career/Technical Education, Economic/Workforce Development, Postsecondary, Technology
-- Continue to support the recently introduced career and technical education bill (HB 15).
-- Continue to support the goal of a Utah College of Applied Technology system that is more responsive to real-time business needs and is more accessible to Utah's students.

Early Learning, Kindergarten
-- Continue to support early childhood learning and full-day kindergarten.

Economic/Workforce Development, Mathematics, Postsecondary
-- Make this year the "Year of Math" for both public and higher education. This will be our economic development engine and our strongest tool in attracting companies to Utah.

Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Make balancing the budget the first priority. Unlike many other states, we have added flexibility in minimizing impacts to our most critical priorities.
-- Reduce spending to hit short-term targets, while not losing sight of long-term goals.

Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Continue on our journey to offer teachers a more competitive wage. While in these difficult economic times we may not be able to further that investment, we must not lose ground.

International Education
-- Continue to support our 21st century foreign language education programs (including Chinese and Arabic).

Postsecondary
-- Continue to support energy development and innovation at our higher education campuses.

http://www.utah.gov/governor/news_media/article.html?article=2301
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