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 James Douglas's State of the State Address
Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development
-- Enhance economic development efforts and pass the Economic Growth Plan (introduced last fall) in the first 100 days of the session.
-- Modernize the permit application process to allow businesses to grow and create jobs.
-- Work with the legislature and others to create the Vermont Economic Response Team, which will use available public and private resources to assist companies at risk.
Early Learning, Early Learning--Finance, Finance, Finance--Funding Formulas, Finance (Postsecondary), Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary
-- Balance distribution of state funds among early education, K-12, and higher education. We spend relatively little on early education – are among the highest in the nation for primary and secondary education – and near the bottom for higher education.
-- Propose a 20% increase in early and higher education.
Enrollment
-- Recognize the realities of declining enrollments across the state.
Finance, Finance--Funding Formulas, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Work with the legislature to establish a collaborative process to design a new education funding system that is simple, transparent and sustainable. The current education funding system is failing taxpayers and local voters and is not sustainable.
-- Freeze per-pupil spending for schools and categorical grants at current levels until the new funding system is established.
Finance, Finance--Resource Efficiency, Governance, Special Education
-- Examine school consolidation, governance, special education costs, and other opportunities to achieve efficiencies.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Expect to have a shortfall of more than $150 million in fiscal year 2010.
-- Reduce benefits and cut programs for the next fiscal year – primarily in human services – by at least $150 million out of a general fund budget of less than $1.2 billion.
-- Link the general fund transfer to the education fund to changes in the level of general government spending.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Place the obligation for funding the teachers' retirement system in the education fund. This $40 million would leverage $97 million in state and federal Global Commitment money and reduce the need to cut critical programs.
Finance, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- End property tax subsidies for Vermonters making over $75,000 in order to lower tax rates even further for all payers.
-- Collect no more from residential taxpayers next year than this year.
Finance, Finance--Taxes/Revenues, Governance, School Districts
-- Allow each school district to determine what works best for its students.
-- Strengthen local control by holding school districts directly responsible for tax increases.
Postecondary
-- Integrate the University of Vermont and the Vermont State Colleges into a single organization.
-- Charge a working task force with the responsibility to find academic and administrative efficiencies that will be achieved through consolidation of our university and state college systems. I will ask the task force to report with recommendations by November 15th.
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