Leaders at the state house have said that education with a focus on workforce development will be a big focus in the upcoming session.
"While Indiana continues to make historic investments in K-12 education and is the No. 1 state for school choice and parent empowerment, we still have work to do," Bob Behning, committee chair and State Rep. said."We must do more to ensure our high school graduates are ready to meet the needs of our 21st century economy, and I look forward to working on this critical issue and many others in the session ahead.
"We help students prepare whether that is to go in to work, college, trade school apprenticeship, military, basically anything except be a couch bum,"Flint said. " Whenever I started in 2011, we probably had about 50% of our students thinking at least associates degree and 4-year, but a lot of it now is something that is going to get them directly in to a good paying job,"Flint who works at Decatur Central High School said.
The trend of less young people pursing a 4-year degree is something the Indiana Chamber of Commerce says they are aware of. Indiana had a really good story to tell because we're one of the most business friendly, tax friendly, regulatory friendly states in the country, lowest cost of doing business, etc,” Bearce said. “Increasingly employers are looking at what the talent level is in each state and they're looking at their education levels.
State Rep. Ed DeLaney a Democrat from Indianapolis who sits on the education committee says creating a fancy new program isn’t the answer.
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