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 Jack Markell's State of the State Address
Economic/Workforce Development
-- Continue to support small and other Delaware-based businesses to create new and lasting careers.
Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--Lotteries, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Raise $55M by re-authorizing a sports lottery--to help the economy, create jobs and help fill budget gap.
Faculty, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Ensure that government is smaller by 2011 by keeping the hiring freeze in effect and by reducing the size of government through retirements and attrition.
-- Propose a temporary 8% across the board cut in the salaries of all state employees. This proposal includes trading three fixed holidays per year for three floating ones and, for the time being, freezing career ladder adjustments.
-- Support legislation to eliminate the "double state share" for married state employees.
-- Propose an in depth evaluation of the state's health plan for employees and retirees with the expectation that employees and retirees will pay for a larger portion of their health care than they do today.
-- Realize that the combination of salary and benefit reductions means the average state employee will take home 10% less next year than they do today.
Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Leverage $155M in federal stimulus funding.
-- Appointed Lt. Governor Denn to be our state's "Stimulus Czar" and launched the Governor's Stimulus Solutions Group to ensure we make the most of the stimulus.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Face a budget shortfall of $750M--which may get bigger.
-- Keep government's core commitments while spreading sacrifices so no one citizen or group bears a disproportionate burden.
-- Balance budget by: (1) reducing spending by $331M; reallocating special funds by $40M; increasing our revenues by $166M (including a raise in the cigarette, alcohol and income tax for those making over $60,000); and raising fees and fines by $12M.
-- Slash both state capital outlay and consultant costs.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary
-- Make sure our higher education system contines to be centers of innovation and opportunity.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, School
-- Make sure schools continue to prepare our children for the future.
Teaching Quality, Teaching Quality--Compensation
-- Reduce the number of in-service days for our public school teachers from six to three--to save $7.7M.
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