ECS
2012 State of the State Address
Education-Related Proposals
Rhode Island


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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 Lincoln D. Chafee's State of the State Address

PROPOSALS

Finance - State Budgets
-- Devote nearly $40 million in additional education funding to cities and towns.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Finance - Federal
-- Received an historic $75 million Race to the Top grant
-- Received an additional $50 million for a Race to the Top early learning grant

http://www.governor.ri.gov/addresses/sots12.php