Governor Blagojevich proposes preschool for all in Fiscal Year 2007 budget
Governor Rod R. Blagojevich presented an approximately $45.4 billion operating budget plan for Fiscal Year 2007 whose centerpiece is making Illinois the only state in the nation to provide access to pre-school for every three-year-old and four-year-old child. Highlights of the Governor’s budget plan include: investing $100 million in stem cell research over five years; creating the Prairie State DNA Institute; a plan to eliminate the nursing shortage; a new program to reduce K-3 class sizes; Veterans Care: a health care program to cover uninsured veterans; new police officers; new tax credits to promote development in Illinois cities bordering major rivers and to expand the film industry in Illinois; reducing the time it takes to process applications for state licenses from 4 to 19 weeks to one to four weeks; increased funding for higher education; $400 million in new funding for K-12 education; creating a one stop service center for senior citizens; combining state agency administrative functions to improve efficiency and save money; strengthening payments into the pension systems by dedicating the proceeds from the sale of the 10th casino license to pensions; creating new prison facilities to deal specifically with the problem of addiction to methampathemine; and providing a $1,000 tax credit to students (freshmen and sophomores) with a B average attending college in Illinois.
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10/02/08 - Illinois EPA hosts Pharmaceutical Summit and Conference Stakeholder groups work on ways of reducing pharmaceuticals and personal care products in drinking water SPRINGFIELD—As part of its overall efforts to ensure that citizen’s of Illinois continue to have high quality and safe sources of drinking water, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director Doug Scott Wednesday convened a Summit at the University of Illinois at Springfield to discuss ways to reduce the amounts of pharmaceuticals and personal care products being discharged into waters of the state that ultimately become a source of drinking water. 09/19/08 - Governor Blagojevich Thanks State Commission for Approving $100 Million Student Loan Deal Trailblazing Partnership will Ensure 20,000 Students Can Get Low-Interest Loans Governor Rod R. Blagojevich thanked the Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) today after they approved his trailblazing $100 million deal to provide 20,000 students low-interest loans, which he announced earlier this month. Eight Illinois-based credit unions will invest $100 million in securities issued by ISAC to finance low-interest, federally secured loans to Illinois students and their families. These Stafford loans will be easily available to Illinois students at a time when students living in other states have been hard-pressed to find willing lenders.
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Governor Blagojevich proposes preschool for all in Fiscal Year 2007 budget
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