FISD creating partnerships with local industry

I am a firm believer that every student is an individual on a unique path towards adulthood. Students have specific goals and needs which they have set for themselves and their future. The addition of the Career and Technical Education (CTE) program is a good first step by the FISD’s desire to help meet the needs of students wanting technical as well as conventional forms of learning. This is an awesome milestone for our district and I believe, will become a staple of all the educational programs in our future. However, with this said, the CTE program will also have a large number of consumables which will need to be repurchased every year. As our district increases in size and the amount of high school students increases, the need for more CTE programs will become inevitable. This could eventually end in a very high price tag handed over to tax payers. My plan to create partnerships with local businesses in order to give our students more experience and training while cutting the district’s need to solely support all programs financially will help alleviate these possible tax increases.

I have always been a staunch believer that strong schools create strong communities. If elected, I would help FISD to use this belief to form bonds with local industry to help increase the ability of CTE programs to better prepare our students to enter the local workforce with not only the skills they need but also with functional networks within our area. This type of partnership assists local businesses to gain well-educated and trained employees while reducing the need for increased school budgeting. This type of collaboration can exist in order to benefit our students’ education and help financially to support growth while maintaining a strict FISD autonomy for all policies and curriculum.