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A: Powell: We want to create jobs for the economy so you have meaningful jobs to go into when you get out of school. Also have to focus on health care issues, affordable and meaningful healthcare that is available to you. We need to make sure education is funded adequately, protected education from cuts. Education is top priority. Want teachers to have the funds needed to do their work. Young folks are kept safe and have a bright future.
Morgan: I have been a teacher at BHS for 14 years, coach volleyball and tennis. Seen many move on to bigger and better things (ie: college, good jobs), I hope to continue to succeed as a representative or a teacher at Burnsville. About creating jobs, having health care.
Aldrich: I have had children in Burnsville and have gone to games with them and have come to the Garage at least once because I brought them, and they had a good time. Teens do need places to congregate by themselves. Improve business climate so that everyone becomes prosperous.
Q: Many of the youth that wish to participate in GARAGE programs are not able to because of inability to get here, what will you do to strengthen transportation?
A: Aldrich: Bus systems only go so long. I'd like to see the buses run at least every hour and keep going.
Morgan: We need to make sure that our transportation system provides the roads we need to move efficiently around and we have a limited transport system that needs to be improved to keep traffic down. We need to reduce congestion and not allow it to increase so that people, foods, etc can move through the city efficiently and effectively.
Powell: We can have the smaller buses (ie: DART) do much of the transportation. Shuttle routs will get people from one place to another in a short amount of time. Buses are a lot more fluid.
Daly: Transportation is such a critical issue. It is an issue for quality of life and economic development to bring jobs and vitality. This needs to be a state, local partnership. What we need is leadership. We need leaders to sit down at the table to talk about our issues and make it happen. We'll need dollars at all levels. We have a great bus system, but we can do better. We need to pay attention to the rivers. This is a major issue for all of us. I intend to bring the leadership to the federal level neseccary to get the job done.
Q: What are the problems with education funding?
A: Daly: The program we hear about at the Federal Level is No Child Left Behind. All standards and measures are held at the top. These are more set up for our schools to fail than suceed. Those decisions should be pushed down to the local level. That is one issue. Secondly, we need to fund it. NCLB came with a price tag. Nothing is more important to this society than education. The day we take our eye off education, is the day we start losing everything we stand for. I would like to work in DC to push more control down to the local level.
Morgan: Larger class sizes, larger fees to participate in activities, fewer programs, not as many opportunities for AP classes, not as many opportunities for kids who need more help are all results of budget cuts. We need a predictable and stable source of funding. Education is the greatest investment that a society can make. It is a wonderful upward spiral.
Powell: Education is funded by three different sources. Federal, state, and local. There are plenty of reasons why we are having trouble. Money that the feds have dedicated has not kept up with costs. We continue to lose students on a year by year basis and that cuts into your budget. The single biggest problem is the funding formula. That needs to be fixed in a way that doesn't punish the districts that have declining enrollment.
Aldrich: I really don't see the funding as the problem because if you compare what private and public schools spend, you'll find out the private schools educate the students better at one third to one half of the cost.
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