In today's paper, there is an excellent article which discusses education and its connection to job creation. The article by Brian Greenspun can be read by following this link http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/feb/13/status-quo-isnt-good-enough-anymore/
Essentially, he reminds what we already know: education leads to business creation and jobs. Sandoval, however, fails to understand this, as by the way, does the majority of myopically strained Republicans. So, then, antithetical to job creation is cutting education funding. Interesting, the only thing the conservatives can consider for balancing the budget is cutting the thing that will create jobs and, oh yeah, generate more tax revenue.
Stupid is a stupid does. Nevada ranks at the bottom of money spent to educate its citizens by a huge margin and the thinking is to cut more spending from education? This makes no sense, unless, one has an interest in maintaining an uneducated workforce. Perhaps, it not quite that nefarious, as this implies the ability to think and plan--I see no evidence of that coming from the Sandoval regime. But, then again.
Being an educator in a state that, at least from the elected leaders, places no value on his efforts is sad and pathetic. Welcome to Fabulous Vegas where we like our citizens uniformed, uneducated and unemployed. Hurray, baby needs a new pair of shoes: give me a seven. That's the only way to make it--sure luck.
I saw on Face to Face this week, that Las Vegas Nevada is one of the top 8 most uneducated cities in the US, meaning lowest number of high education degrees in our city....I think that perhaps we promote stupidity...oh but they also finished the interview by stating....we do have the largest community college in the US...I was confused, maybe no one graduates....
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