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 Tim Kaine's State of the State Address
Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development, Finance
-- Move forward on authorized capital projects and business incentives designed to help create jobs. Set a goal that a minimum of 30 state capital projects worth at least $250 million in construction costs be put to bid prior to the end of this fiscal year (equates to an average of six projects a month between February 1 and June 30, 2009).
-- Invest $5 million in the Governor's Opportunity Fund to attract new jobs.
Business Involvement, Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--Facilities, Finance--Resource Efficiency, Postsecondary
-- Create green jobs.
-- Support the Interagency Task Force for Energy Project Recruitment that will work with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to build the state's case for renewable energy-related businesses. The task force will include state agencies, university research centers, and federal laboratories based in Virginia.
-- Pursue changes to make it easier to take new energy technology discoveries made on Virginia campuses and turn them into new companies and new jobs in the state. In collaboration with technology-based economic development organizations, our universities will develop a single internet portal for investors to understand both the types of research being done on Virginia campuses and how they can be a part of bringing those new technologies to market.
-- Require in the Code of Virginia that all state and local government buildings meet either LEED or Green Globes standards for efficiency. Focusing on conservation efforts will also lead to construction jobs. Employing carpenters, electricians, installers, and other contracting professionals to retrofit old buildings is one way to put people back to work. In addition, expecting new construction to meet enhanced environmental standards will provide additional opportunities for advanced construction jobs.
Community Colleges, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance (Postsecondary), Financial Aid
-- Propose difficult cuts in higher education.
-- Propose a lesser cut for community colleges--the most affordable point of entry into the state's higher education system.
-- Provide $26 million in additional support for need-based financial aid to assist middle and lower-income students.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Funding Formulas
-- Propose targeted, performance-based cuts, instead of across-the-board cuts.
-- Focus state funds to protect the students' experience in the classroom, which I consider that the state's core priority.
-- Reduce funding for administrative and support personnel in schools and central offices by applying a funding cap for these positions (a cap is already applied to determine the number of teachers and principals the state funds).
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Tighten the belt of government.
-- Pledge to not meet the budget shortfall through a general tax increase on Virginia's families.
-- Maintain tax cuts already put in place--elimination of the estate tax, sales tax holidays for school supplies and energy efficient appliances, and the elimination of all income taxes for nearly 140,000 low-income Virginia workers.
-- Propose one targeted tax increase--a 30 cent per pack increase on the cigarette tax (would bring Virginia's tobacco tax up to about half the national average).
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