Monday, May 17, 2010

Arizona has problems


This article talks about how the lack of good education in Arizona didn’t stop people from finding employment. Because in Arizona had an increasing population, even high school dropouts have always been successful with construction real estate sales, and retail jobs. But now the population is decreasing, and a lot of the usual job markets have stopped hiring. I think that it’s interesting that graduating from high school might not be necessary if a place had a lot of people in it; you could still be successful in certain jobs. Now the jobs available in Arizona can’t help-out the 23,000 K-12 dropouts that the Arizona school system produces each year. According to the 2008 U.S. Census Bureau Survey, 16.3 percent of citizens from Arizona of twenty-five years or older lack proper high school education. This number is higher among poorer communities. I think that it’s a little late for the government of Arizona to just be beginning to come up with a way to solve their education problem. Also, I think that it’s going to be hard for them to provide the proper amount of money to the schools because the country is in an economic recession. I do like the fact that the school system is realizing that they have a problem, and trying to fix it before their education starts to become one of the worst. According to the article, by 2020 Arizona schools need to get into the top 20 or top 10 U.S. schools in order for their economic safety to be confirmed, for more companies want to go to Arizona, and, jobs to be made open. I hope that school systems all over the country start to come up with the same sort of developments.

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