ECS
2011 State of the State Addresses
Education-Related Proposals

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The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2011 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 Dalrymple's State of the State Address

PROPOSALS

Economic/Workforce Development
-- Invest in research and development in the university system.
-- Foster a culture of entrepreneurship where all four-year universities operate business incubators that support start-up enterprises of all kinds.
-- Build, educate and retain the workforce.

Postsecondary Education
-- Encourage young people to seek advanced education.
-- Make post-secondary education more affordable for all of our young people.
-- Begin a new approach to funding higher education based on the outcomes that education leaders and citizens would like to see from their college campuses.

School Finance
-- Finish the job of funding adequacy and move to the great challenge of improving the quality of instruction in our schools.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
N/A: Newly-Elected Governor

http://governor.nd.gov/events/2011-state-state-address
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