Kwast on education
The best way to attract students to return to Kings County once they are finished with college is to make sure that jobs exist here. You cannot expect students to return to the area if they are unable to find suitable employment. A four-year college would be beneficial to the county, especially to our economic base of course. I would be supportive of any efforts to bring such a facility to the county; however it is probably not an achievable goal in the foreseeable future. A more achievable goal and perhaps of more imminent importance is to improve the educational opportunities for our youth in the K-12 grade range. That is why I am a charter member of CAST (Community and Schools Together) in Corcoran and why I have been supportive of the Air Force Junior ROTC program in Corcoran, and the efforts to build the new “Learning Center” to be located at Corcoran High. I believe your question on integrating parents into discussions about their children’s education is really a question more appropriate for school board candidates.