How to match skills with jobs

If you haven’t been paying attention lately, education seems to be under fire. Recent legislative cuts have left preschool, elementary, high schools and post-secondary education institutions scrambling to cut, consolidate and survive. As P-12 schools react to a 6.6 percent reduction in funding, some higher education institutions look at increased tuition to compensate for their reductions. At a time when we have an unemployment rate of 9.6 percent statewide and where we are desperate for more jobs, we are still whittling away at our most fundamental economic growth tool, education.