With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.
For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.
It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.
I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
Here in Arkansas, we are preparing a generation of learners to meet the needs of businesses by equipping students with workforce training opportunities statewide.
Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need to succeed in our economy and society.
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.