The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2013 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 Deval L. Patrick's State of the Commonwealth Address
PROPOSALS
Extended Instructional Time
-- Ensure that every middle school child in every Gateway City has a longer school day, filled with enrichment programs, service learning, art, exercise and music.
Finance
-- Once again fund K-12 education higher than we did last year
-- Place a greater reliance on the income tax and less reliance on the sales tax (cut the sales tax from the current rate of 6.25 percent to 4.5 percent and dedicate all of the proceeds to a public works fund in support of transportation, school building fund, other public works)
-- To support our education initiatives, increase the income tax by 1% -- to 6.25%. To make that increase fair to all according to their ability to pay, double the personal exemptions for every taxpayer and eliminate a number of itemized deductions.
P-3
-- Ensure that every child in Massachusetts has access to high quality early education.
Postsecondary
-- Raise our investment in public colleges and universities, and reinvigorate the MassGrants scholarship program.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
-- Introduced new accountability and flexibility to our schools
-- Saved the Commonwealth over 11 billion dollars so far, which in turn has enabled us to invest in education, innovation and infrastructure.
Full text: http://www.mass.gov/governor/pressoffice/speeches/0116-state-of-the-commonwealth.html
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