Twenty-two governors mentioned early care and education in their 2012 state of the state addresses. Governors of several states, including Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, and Kentucky, expressed support for increased investments in early care and education. The governors of Rhode Island and Tennessee talked about protecting funding for child care assistance. Governors of some states, including Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, and Oregon, discussed efforts to reorganize or consolidate early care and education programs for increased focus, efficiency, and coordination. In addition, the governors of Delaware, Minnesota, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Washington, noted that their states were awarded Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grants.
The excerpts from the speeches related to early care and education, along with links to the entire speeches, are provided below. (Seven states have not had, nor are they scheduled to have, state of the state addresses.) All of the state of the state addresses are available at here.
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