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STATE OF STATE ADDRESS
Budget proposal highlights offered
March 14, 2007 - Major new programs targeting schools, the uninsured and job-increasing investments were announced today during the State of the State address (PDF), but Gov. Ted Strickland warned that the new initiatives would not come without sacrifice.
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Highlights from Strickland's proposals:
- provide access to health care for all children
- increased early childhood education
- expand workforce development training by tapping unused federal dollars
- a freeze on new charter schools, an end to school vouchers, and a ban on for-profit charter school operators
- increase state funding to school systems to 54%
- school funding increases and property tax cuts paid for by "securitizing" the Tobacco Fund
- a freeze on college tuition
- major new investments in alternative energy developments, plus new bonding funds that will be leveraged for additional private investments
Resources
2007 State of State Address (PDF)
State Budget Resources
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