Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

We need more State resources targeted to education and job training. For education, early childhood reading and after school latchkey programs will really help parents struggling to make ends meet and their kids. The State Legislature can do more to help community centers, libraries and school principals/elementary school PTOs obtain state and federal grant dollars to hire the teachers, paraprofessionals and obtain the facilities and technology to support these impactful programs. For jobs, real world, on the job experience must be factored into employment eligibility. A person who has served in the National Guard, Reserve or on Active Military Duty and earned a military job specialty should get credit for those skills. They should be able to enter the civilian work force immediately, without having to cut through red tape and bureaucratic obstacles. By enabling pathways to good jobs and through expanded access to impactful education programs, we will meet this challenge.

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