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 Peter Shumlin's 2011 Budget Address
[Budget Address: No State of the State Address for 2011]
PROPOSALS
Finance
-- Make an ongoing reduction of $23 million from the General Fund transfer to the Education Fund. This reduction will require continued spending restraint by hardworking school boards and local communities to hold back property tax increases.
Release one-time federal funding of $19 million to give local communities additional time to make further spending reductions, but they must be made.
Pre-K -3
-- Make Vermont the national leader in early childhood education. Expand the state's pre-kindergarten program for ages three, four, and five, by lifting the cap on the number of students counted in Pre-K funding. Vermonters will be able to exercise local control and vote to spend money without the heavy hand of Montpelier preventing them from doing so.
-- When this cap is lifted, over time, if half of Vermont's eligible children are enrolled in a Pre-K program – an optimistic goal – the cost to the state's Education Fund would be about $14 million.
Economic Development
Create a sustainable higher education income tax credit that will enable Vermont students who stay here and work here to reduce their college debt.
Technology
-- Two weeks ago, I launched Connect VT, an ambitious plan to deliver broadband and cell service to every corner of Vermont.
To get this essential project done, in addition to using federal funds and private investments, I propose spending $13 million from our two-year capital budget and fully utilizing the $40 million revenue bond capacity of the Vermont Telecommunications Authority. These investments will expedite the build out of fiber optics lines and wireless networks across our state, including the most rural areas that for economic reasons are least likely to attract private providers.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
N/A - Newly-elected Governor
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