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| Governor Branstad's Budget Address
PROPOSALS
Pre-K -3
-- Ensure that every Iowa child has access to quality preschool. Make a $43 million annual investment in providing preschool assistance to those families in greatest need. Research shows preschool investments have the most long-lasting impact on children who come from homes with financial need. As such, our program will be targeted to those families and will give parents flexibility to choose the preschool environment that best meets the needs of their children. But we can not do it alone. All across this state parents, private donors and caring organizations have, for years, partnered with preschool providers to ensure access. I am happy to have the state of Iowa join them as a partner, not as a sole provider.
Finance
-- Provide nearly $160 million in direct property tax relief to Iowans. This fully funds the state's share of the school funding commitments, erasing the need for local school districts to make up the difference by raising property taxes.
-- While school systems across the country are reeling with massive budget cuts, this budget for the next two years holds school spending authority at the current level. No increase, no decrease but with an assurance that we can deliver on this promise and allow our creative school leaders more flexibility and an opportunity to make things work.
Quality Schools, Student Achievement
--Convene an education summit this summer to bring together the nation's most dynamic education reform leaders. These national leaders will work with our new education policy team and strive to reach a consensus on what changes are needed to give our children the nation's highest quality schools. Should we reach that critical consensus, and I have no reason to believe that we won't, I will convene a special session of the Iowa legislature in the fall of this year to approve our bold reform agenda and to make good on our new covenant promise to provide our children with a globally competitive education.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
N/A - Newly-elected Governor.
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