Education official to seek local input
A U.S. Department of Education official plans to pick the brains of Las Vegas teachers and students in a warm-up to a cross-country bus tour that starts next week in California.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan plans to hop a bus in what is being dubbed “Education Drives America,” according to a Department of Education news release.
But before the rubber hits the road and the tour bus guns its engine, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education Brenda Dann-Messier will gather input from teachers, students and local officials at the Veterans Tribute Career and Technical Academy on Monday.
Later, she will visit the Desert Rose Adult High School and Career Center.
On Tuesday, she will tour the College of Southern Nevada and hold a roundtable discussion on adult education and career pathways with students and faculty.
It’s all part of President Barack Obama’s blueprint for crafting a new approach to career and technical education.
Some of the proposed reforms include improving the quality of job-training opportunities.
Duncan and his senior leaders will be traveling the country from Sept. 12 to 21. His planned stops don’t include Las Vegas, according to the press office.
He will be stopping in Reno. His other destinations include Sacramento, Calif.; Salt Lake City; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Denver; Topeka, Kan.; Kansas City, Mo.; St. Louis; Evansville, Ind.; Lexington, Ky.; Charleston, W. Va.; Roanoke and Richmond, Va .
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