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.
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Governor Tom Corbett's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
State Policymaking
-- Give more flexibility at the level where money will be spent: the county and school district.
Postsecondary
-- Create a panel on postsecondary education to study our system and to make recommendations on how our universities can best
serve the students and citizens.
Postsecondary/Community College - Finance; Financial Aid
-- Maintain funding for career and technical education.
-- Invest in the Targeted Industry Certificate program that increases grants for college and trade school students who are training for high-demand occupations.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Finance - Funding Formula
-- Invested $5.3 billion to the Basic Education funding formula last year, the largest amount the state's taxpayers have ever put into the formula.
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/current_and_proposed_commonwealth_budgets/4566/2012-13_proposed_budget_news_releases_and_governor's_address/1067477 |
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