Pennsylvania
Legislators Appointed to Commission to Improve PA’s Education System, Workforce – Pennsylvania Senate Republicans
Appointees tasked with redesigning PA schooling to higher meet the state’s financial wants
HARRISBURG – On account of laws sponsored by Sen. Ryan Aument (R-36) to revamp the state’s schooling system, Senate President Professional Tempore Kim Ward (R-39) appointed Sens. Aument, Rosemary Brown (R-40), David Argall (R-29) and Devlin Robinson (R-37) to serve on the Pennsylvania Fee on Training & Financial Competitiveness.
As a result of the present schooling system doesn’t adequately meet the wants of Pennsylvania’s workforce, the fee shall be tasked with making a long-term plan to align our schooling system with job calls for. The various members of the fee will:
- Create a shared, bipartisan imaginative and prescient for 21st century schooling that can put together all college students to compete in a world economic system,
- Set up insurance policies to present all college districts the help and suppleness they should construct world-class schooling methods, and
- Advocate a legislative motion plan to attain these shared targets.
“Making ready our college students right now for the roles of tomorrow is vital to strengthening Pennsylvania’s economic system and making our Commonwealth much more aggressive from a workforce perspective,” mentioned Sen. Kim Ward. “Sens. Aument, Argall, Brown, and Robinson will present a complete and laser-focused method to the work of this fee that can assist ship an modern schooling system to deal with our twenty first century workforce wants.”
“If Pennsylvania is to compete and win in a world economic system, we should redesign our schooling system to align the abilities we train within the classroom with the wants of our workforce,” Aument mentioned. “I’m desperate to work collectively on a shared imaginative and prescient for our schooling system that higher prepares Pennsylvania college students for the roles of the longer term.”
“I’m honored to be appointed to serve on this impactful fee,” Brown mentioned. “Envisioning the way forward for Pennsylvania via the lenses of high quality schooling will form our state to be a significant financial competitor. I sit up for working with my colleagues to review the present challenges and create a concrete plan to organize our subsequent technology for fulfillment.”
“There aren’t any easy options to fixing Pennsylvania’s schooling system, however I imagine we are able to make actual progress by working collectively in a bipartisan style,” mentioned Argall. “I sit up for working with the fee to higher put together our youngsters for the 21st century economic system.”
“As Chair of the Labor and Business Committee, I often hear from employers struggling to search out certified staff to fill open positions,” mentioned Robinson. “I sit up for working with the fee to rethink how we educate and practice the workforce of tomorrow.”
All senators will serve the fee because it completes its work throughout the 18-month deadline.
CONTACT: Erica Clayton Wright (Sen. Ward)
Stephanie Applegate (Sen. Aument)
Mackenzie Mueller (Sen. Brown)
Jim Brugger (Sen. Argall)
Allison Dutrey (Sen. Robinson)