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As Kasich Leaves Office, He Promotes Education as the Workforce Pipeline

December 11, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

Ohio Governor John Kasich in Des Moines on 6/24/15.
Photo credit: Dave Davidson – Prezography.com

Ohioans dodged a bullet with Ohio Governor John Kasich leaving office. As he leaves he laments what he was unable to accomplish in the name of education reform and workforce development.

Jeremy Pelzer with Cleveland.com reports:

Outgoing Gov. John Kasich on Monday mulled openly about the future of Ohio’s economy, saying that the state’s K-12 education system needs a “fundamental restructuring” that involves more direct involvement by the business community.

Kasich, speaking to the board of JobsOhio, the state’s non-profit economic development corporation, said Ohio children need to learn skills that businesses need so they can get good-paying jobs as adults.

“And who can do that better than business? Who can explain this to kids better?” Kasich asked.

The governor lamented that two of his proposals in recent years to directly involve businesspeople in K-12 education were shot down. One was to put two non-elected businesspeople on every school board in the state so they could offer guidance on school curricula. The other sought to require Ohio teachers to shadow a local businessperson before they could renew their teaching licenses.

Fortunately, the Ohio Legislature had the good sense to realize those proposals were utter nonsense. If a member of the business community wants to serve on the school board they can run for office. Also, what in the world were teachers supposed to gain by shadowing a local businessperson? What a colossal waste of time. 

His proposals would have doubled down on stupid. The purpose of education is not workforce development. It’s not the job of K-12 schools to feed the workforce pipeline.

Filed Under: Education at State Level, Education Reform Tagged With: John Kasich, workforce development

Comments

  1. Sunflower says

    December 11, 2018 at 1:49 pm

    Only 29 percent of those taking the ACT are considered college-ready in English, Reading, Math and Science.

    K1-12 schools isn’t very good at doing their job in my state. Not sure adding workforce improvements to the current curriculum could be entrusted to them anyway. Need a whole new curriculum.
    KPI article- Will $17K Per-Pupil Make Achievement Acceptable?

  2. Thomas Benner says

    December 12, 2018 at 8:36 am

    http://www.uspie.org

  3. Concerned citizen says

    December 12, 2018 at 6:31 pm

    Those creating and voting on education laws should spend time in the classroom and send their children to public schools.

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