Magic Valley students welcomed to weigh in on future of Idaho education, $410 million education boost

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — Speaker Scott Bedke, Rep. Laurie Lickley and Faculty of Southern Idaho President Dean Fisher hosted a roundtable with Magic Valley college students and schooling leaders to speak about the way forward for Idaho schooling.

The dialogue coated want for in-demand profession alternatives, higher-education traits and the current particular legislative session. Home Invoice 1 allocates $410 million to Idaho schooling.

“It’s actually essential that we perceive how we implement that within the subsequent legislative session, however most significantly we wish to discover the applications which are working in our excessive colleges to offer these (children) the ability set the necessity to go on and be productive members of our workforce group,” mentioned Lickley.

Program development was a spotlight of the dialogue with a view to get highschool college students considering of their careers after they graduate. Kamille Mirkin is a senior at Jerome Excessive College and is aside of 4H and FFA. She mentioned these applications have helped her decide a profession path and she or he feels that applications like these needs to be a spotlight with regards to schooling funding.

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“I believe it’s extraordinarily necessary to have the ability to have these applications that permit for college students to study extra about job alternatives in our space when they’re in highschool in order that method after they go and enter the work pressure, they perceive what they wish to do,” mentioned Mirkin.

Lickley hopes conversations like this may result in higher schooling in Idaho and additional permit college students to be a spotlight with regards to authorities schooling funding.

“We’re and ag primarily based space proper right here within the magic valley however there are such a lot of different abilities and trades that our college students want to enter the work pressure or go onto get the next schooling. As everyone knows schooling is freedom,” mentioned Lickley.

For extra info on Home Invoice 1, click on right here.