Meaningful education is the key to creating Northwest Indiana’s new workforce. We need to work collaboratively with teachers to sustain and improve the performance of our schools. Across Indiana the education scene has drastically changed in the past two decades.
(Jessica Renslow teaching an interactive history lesson about Drusella Carr.)
It is up to our communities to collectively advocate for the best options for all of our children. We need to examine what is working and take a hard look at what is not. Training our young leaders to be ready for 21st century jobs will give us a competitive advantage in our state, national and world markets.
(Jessica Renslow helped create a program that brings the basics of bike mechanics to Gary, Indiana.)
If elected, Jessica Renslow will fight to:
- Pursue partnership opportunities between public school systems and aligned non-for-profits to help develop programming and stewardship of facilities. This approach will benefit INHD3 by lessening the burden of maintaining all of our school facilities on the taxpayer, while reducing our blight situation and better guaranteeing our residents receive meaningful education opportunities at all ages.
- Bring back the outreach and pride of the labor movement into our schools by facilitating mentorship opportunities to help bridge the disconnect between our educational institutions and our regional employers.
- Demand transparency of funding for all INHD3 schools whether they be voucher, charter, or public.
- Support a moratorium on virtual charter school growth.
- Make kindergarten mandatory across Indiana, while advocating for students to attend school by age five and require attendance by age six (current compulsory schooling age in Indiana is seven).
- Ensure Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) funds are properly allocated among all schools within INHD3.
- Refocus state policies to promote hybrid schools, over virtual charters, for non traditional learners seeking high school diplomas.
- Promote inclusive community wellness programming across INHD3.
- Advocate for entrepreneurial education and financial literacy across INHD3 via community partnerships with local financial institutions/ business incubators.
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