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 Charlie Crist's State of the State Address
Adult Learning/Continuing Education, Career/Technical Education, Early Learning, Early Learning--Readiness, Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Recommend a total of $2 billion in workforce investments.
-- Recommend over $800 million for career education and employment services to retain 3,000 jobs.
-- Recommend $6.6 million for Ready to Work to ensure job-seekers of all ages have the skills needed for most jobs today.
Community Colleges, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance (Postsecondary), Teaching Quality, Tuition/Fees
-- Renew our commitment to higher education.
-- Continue our commitment to keeping our universities and community colleges affordable and enabling them to achieve excellence.
Early Learning, Early Learning--Readiness, Economic/Workforce Development, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Recommend $621 million for the School Readiness program (helps preschoolers and parents maintain employment and achieve financial independence). An investment in getting the next generation off to a good academic start will retain more than 12,800 jobs for child-care providers and allow families to remain in the workforce.
Economic/Workforce Development, Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Avoid tax increases and deep budget cuts thanks in part to the federal stimulus bill.
-- Use money from the stimulus bill to provide immediate assistance in education.
-- Save or create 206,000 jobs--with the stimulus money.
-- Appoint Don Winstead as Special Advisor to the Governor for the implementation of the American Recovery Act.
-- Approve the Compact between the state and the Seminole Tribe to preserve and create jobs.
-- Invest, through the Quick Action Closing Fund, $45 million to attract and retain industries, aimed at providing more than 17,000 high-wage jobs.
Finance, Finance--Funding Formulas, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Pass legislation requiring school districts to spend 70 percent of their budgets in the classroom for our students and teachers.
-- Require school districts to provide dollar-by-dollar details online, to instill transparency.
-- Consider increasing per-student funding.
Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Included a $21 billion investment in our students and teachers in recent budget recommendation to the legislature.
-- Urge legislature to quickly approve the Compact between the state and the Seminole Tribe, which will release at least $25 billion over 25 years to help education.
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