The next op-ed is written by Governor Andy Beshear

In Kentucky, we put schooling first. We perceive how necessary it’s that each Kentuckian has entry to a high quality schooling. On daily basis, we spend money on schooling, help our lecturers and struggle to make sure that each scholar is positioned for achievement. It’s probably the most necessary investments we will make for the way forward for our younger folks.

Since day one, we now have been dedicated to constructing a greater Kentucky, and that begins with ensuring our kids have a robust instructional basis. My administration continues to search out inventive methods to attach the following era of Kentucky leaders with instructional applications and coaching that put together Kentuckians to thrive in our workforce. Kentucky’s financial system is on fireplace, and the important thing to making sure that we will proceed to draw companies to our commonwealth is investing in our kids’s schooling.

As a dad or mum, I perceive how necessary it’s for each youngster to have the chance to develop and succeed, and we’re dedicated to making sure each scholar has that chance. By means of applications just like the Governor’s College for the Arts (GSA), greater than 7,000 college students have gained abilities which have ready them to be the long run leaders of Kentucky.

Kentucky is cultivating a well-established legacy of arts funding. GSA represents a 35-year funding in scholar arts, schooling and profession growth. Arts schooling isn’t only for these pursuing careers within the arts; it teaches problem-solving and significant considering abilities which might be essential for achievement in any career or line of labor.

Kentucky is likely one of the solely states that gives a statewide arts program tuition-free to highschool college students, and consequently, our workforce is being primed with extremely skilled and expert future employees. When in search of inspiring accounts of younger individuals who signify the most effective of Kentucky, there isn’t any scarcity of success tales.

Reinforcing our dedication to schooling, we invested further funding to develop entry to extra college students. For the primary time, GSA doubled its class measurement, permitting greater than 500 college students to entry this distinctive arts schooling immersion program. Investing this supplemental funding in GSA is one other constructive step in direction of making certain that schooling and cultural alternatives attain college students in each neighborhood within the commonwealth.

With extra alternatives than ever obtainable to Kentuckians, I encourage extra college students to benefit from this unbelievable alternative to develop numerous, lifelong friendships and to discover their inventive skills by means of schooling and the humanities.