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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 9, 2015

Gov. Bill Haslam will deliver his annual State of the State address to the Tennessee Legislature this evening beginning at 6 p.m. Central. The address comes a week after a special session of the legislature killed his proposal to extend health insurance to 280,000 low-income Tennesseans. Haslam now says he will focus on education reform, pledging to keep Tennessee’s rigorous education standards while moving away from the Common Core curriculum, Fox 17 reports. The governor’s budget, which also will be revealed tonight, reportedly contains “significant investments” in K-12 programs, teacher salaries and higher education. The Tennessean has more details.