For the record: What Perdue promised us

EDUCATION

* Expand and better coordinate the Smart Start and More-at-Four pre-kindergarten programs.

* Build a volunteer corps to tutor students in math and reading.

* Require all troubled high schools to comply with research-backed restructuring.

* Ensure that high schools across the state are equipped to offer online college-level coursework.

* Establish the "College Promise" program to guarantee free or affordable college for students who graduate from high school, stay out of trouble and perform community service. The program would expand a state scholarship program known as EARN and increase the scholarships from two years to four.

* Waive tuition to all students who graduate from high school and then enter a community college full time.

SHOULD WE DRILL?

* Rely on scientific and environmental information to determine whether to allow oil drilling off the state's coastline. North Carolina should share in the profits of any oil discovered.

THE ARTS

* Support sustainable resources for community arts councils and organizations. Help them get support from the private sector.

* Protect and develop cultural heritage sites.

* Support arts education and expand arts programs in public schools.

WATER

* Assist local governments with moving toward a tiered water billing system that would charge a higher rate to customers who use the most water.

* Help small cities and towns install better meters, build connections between regional water systems and repair leaking pipes.

* Establish water conservation standards for all new homes, businesses and state government buildings.

* Adopt tax incentives for business to improve water conservation standards in existing buildings.

CRIME

* Give law enforcement agencies equipment they need and fix funding gaps for high-crime communities.

* Boost the number of district attorneys, judges, magistrates and clerks. Increase pay for those positions.

* Toughen anti-gang laws, and attack gangs as organized-crime organizations.

* Enact harsher penalties for crimes involving guns and drugs.

* Give more money to law enforcement agencies participating in a federal program that allows local agencies to pursue immigration charges against illegal aliens.

* Make sure sentences for violent criminals are strong and long.

ECONOMY

* Dramatically expand and transform a state program that helps small towns and cities preserve and revitalize downtowns. Allow cities and towns to choose which economic development ideas best fit their needs.

* Support an $18 million tax reform plan to exempt small businesses from the first $15,000 of their income.

* Expand to $10 million a year a state fund that provides matching grants to start-up companies that win certain research or technology grants.

* Make the state a leader in biofuels, solar energy and other green technology industries.

* Increase the state's investment in an N.C. State University partnership that fosters manufacturing businesses.

HEALTH

* Provide health insurance coverage for all North Carolina children by giving more money to N.C. Kids Care to expand who is covered. Create a system for families to buy insurance for uninsured or uninsurable children. Expand public outreach to ensure that all children who are eligible are enrolled in Medicaid and Health Choice.

* Encourage businesses to offer employees affordable health insurance through tax incentives. Establish an affordable small business-coverage policy that would be funded equally by the employer, the employee and the state.

* Support stem cell research using adult, cord blood or embryonic sources. The N.C. Biotechnology Center will oversee and manage the awarding of stem cell research grants.