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| Governor Sam Brownback's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
P-3
-- Dedicate $6 million this year from the Children's Initiative Fund to the development of early childhood education centers in our most needy school districts.
-- Focus more funding on early childhood reading.
Economic Development
-- Establish a three-year, $105M University Economic Growth initiative to enhance job growth in key economic sectors such as Aviation, Cancer Research, Animal Health, and Engineering. Each university will be required to provide through private sector or reprogrammed funds 50% of the cost of the program initiative.
-- Create a Governor's Economic Council: Chaired by myself, this council will consist of some of our state's most successful men and women who are leaders in the private sector. The Council will assure strategy integration, coordination and accountability across all of the state's economic development agencies and initiatives.
Finance
-- Proposed budget provides school districts with more overall state funding and will also stabilize state support for higher education for the first time since the Great Recession began.
-- Let the Legislature resolve school finance… not the courts, so we can send more money to the classroom, not the courtroom. Define suitability and end the confusion. This will provide a definition of what we need to undertake reform of our school finance formula and provide our school districts with stable, sustainable funding for the future.
Reading/Literacy
-- No child should pass the 4th grade without being able to read.
Rural (Economic Development, Declining Enrollment)
-- Create Rural Opportunity Zones, or ROZes, to provide a state income tax waiver for any individual relocating from out-of-state into any participating county that has experienced double digit percentage population decline the last ten years.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
N/A: Newly-Elected Governor
https://governor.ks.gov/media-room/speeches/2011/01/12/2011-State-of-the-State-Message |  |
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