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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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- Wisconsin
Governor Jim Doyle's State of the State Address

Economic/Workforce Development, Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance
-- Created the Wisconsin Office of Recovery and Reinvestment, lead by Gary Wolter, the CEO of MG&E, to quickly move federal stimulus funds to create jobs.

Finance, Finance--Facilities
-- Fix crumbling schools.

Finance, Finance--Resource Efficiency, Standards, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Recruitment/Retention
-- Change school funding in a way that encourages the hiring and retention of good teachers, provides for high standards and encourages efficiencies in our school districts.

Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Face a budget gap estimated at $5.4 billion, or 17 percent of our biennial budget.
-- Make additional spending cuts to address budget crisis--have already cut $500 million in spending for this year, halted state employee bonuses, stopped grants and started auctioning 500 vehicles.
-- Work with Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to make government more efficient and effective.
-- Cannot place education funding off limits, but will not allow cuts that ruin the quality of our classrooms or make universities and technical colleges out of reach for working families.

Health
-- Make sure all our public places are smoke-free.
-- Make sure kids with autism get the treatment they need.

http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/journal_media_detail.asp?locid=19&prid=3922
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