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 Dave Freudenthal's State of the State Address
Career/Technical Education, Community Colleges, Finance, Finance--Funding Formulas, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary
-- Urge the legislature, particularly the Joint Education Committee, to work with the superintendent to figure out why the state ranks first or second in K-12 funding effort, but not in test scores, matriculation or drop out rates. The state is placing education funding at a high enough level that the goal of providing students an opportunity to acquire sufficient knowledge and skills at a minimum to enter the University of Wyoming and Wyoming community colleges, to prepare students for the job market or post-secondary, vocational and technical training and
to achieve the general purposes of education, should be achievable. This question should be considered before the school financing formula is recalibrated.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Fund capital construction projects such as highways, airports and other projects across the state that impact the economy and create jobs.
-- Provide $900,000 for targeted advertising to help maintain some normality in the tourism sector. The tourism sector is not only important for that sector itself, but it is important because it may be the one source of additional retail expenditures for many of the stores, cafes and other operations in Wyoming.
-- Commit to investing funding in the future of the state.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Make difficult decisions about the budget--decisions that have to do with saying "no" in a way that we have never had to say it before. Revenues are available, but that does not mean that they need to be spent. Now is a good time to consider whether we spend state funds properly.
-- Fund the First Children's Finance Program--the state's continuing effort to address the lack of available child care in Wyoming. I have identified sources within the current funding stream to fund this program and thus am not asking for additional General Fund consideration.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Address accrued obligations, such as the actuarial shortfall in the retirement account caused by the past increase in teacher salaries. To address this I have allotted $150 million to eventually fund that shortfall.
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