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| Governor Sam Brownback's 2013 State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Reading/Literacy
-- Ensure each of the 40,000 kindergartners is able to read proficiently by the time they reach 4th grade. The Kansas Reads to Succeed initiative has three components:
First, it will provide $12 million to support innovative programs to help struggling readers.
Second, it will provide incentives to elementary schools that most successfully increase 4th grading reading scores.
Third, it will require 3rd grade students to demonstrate an ability to read before being promoted to the 4th grade.
Finance
-- Submit (for legislative approval) a full two-year, balanced budget recommendation, with substantial focus on efficiency and effectiveness.
x It protects base aid and increases total state funding for K-12 schools.
x It maintains stable funding for higher education.
x It provides funding to educate 50 additional medical doctors every year at a new, state-of-the-art medical training building at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
-- Ask the legislature to make it clear in law that defining what is "suitable provision" for public funding of education is a job for the people's elected representatives – and no one else.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Finance
-- When I started as governor, we began the fiscal year with $876.05 in the bank and a projected deficit of $500 million - even after taxes had been increased.
Working with the legislature, we ended last fiscal year with a $500 million ending balance…a billion dollar swing to the good AND we paid off all of our callable bonds!
https://governor.ks.gov/media-room/media-releases/2013/01/16/2013-state-of-the-state-delivered-by-governor-sam-brownback |  |
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