A Speech to Students on Civil Involvement and Public Service
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Channel: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute · 2010 · Education
Gov. Gray Davis 37th Governor of California in 1998, winning 58 percent of the vote. As Governor, he made education a top priority, signing legislation to strengthen California's K-12 system, increasing accountablity in schools, and expanding access to higher education with a record number of scholarships and college loans. These reforms improved student achivement scores for six consecurive years. While presiding over California during an economic expansion, Davis made record investments in infrastructur, created four Centers of Science and Innovation on UC campuses, and expanded state health insurance for an additional one million children. He also was the first governor in the nation to authorize stem cell research.
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