ECS
2012 State of the State Address
Education-Related Proposals
Kansas


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The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2012 state of the state address. To assure that this information reaches you in a timely manner, minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) or format.

Governor Sam Brownback's State of the State Address

PROPOSALS

Finance
-- Add $45 million dollars in state funding for poorest school districts.
-- Give local school boards more flexibility to spend money.
-- Reform the school finance formula now and sunset that formula after four years. (A lawsuit is scheduled for trial this summer.)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Economic Development
-- Enacted Rural Opportunity Zone program, which provides tax credit and student loan repayment incentives for rural Kansans.

http://www.governor.ks.gov/docs/2012-legislative-agenda/2012-state-of-the-state-01-11-12-final.pdf