Lt Governor and 2018 Gubernatorial candidate Brad Little discusses school policies

Lieutenant Governor and 2018 Gubernatorial candidate, Brad Little, is making his way across Idaho to discuss what he hopes to bring with his education policies.

Little has already rolled out his job, and health care plans but now he wants to let Idahoans know what he is looking to do in education. One thing he wants to accomplish with this new policy? Keep kids in Idaho and have those who left- return. He says that education is the bait to do that.

In rural communities he wants to use resource sharing, so that schools can partner with nearby districts to offset costs and reward those that do share.

He wants provide increased opportunities for post graduation, and give more incentives for those that earn career technical education certificates and job ready skills.

Little wants to keep the best teachers here in Idaho, which means increased pay and a starting pay of $40,000.

“I love telling whoever it is in other states about where we are in Idaho one of the throttles we have is a trained educated workforce and we got a lot of kids that left Idaho, whether it was in the 80’s, the 9’0s, after the last recession,” Little said. “They want the successful ones, well any of them, want to come back want to know that we have a good education system and that’s why I feel passionate about it.

Little also discussed some safety issues in schools when he came by the station earlier today.

He says he has discussed with school districts about how to build new schools, by including things like only having one entry for the public that has someone monitoring at all times. Little says he has been a part of recommendation’s to include more technology in schools like cameras, and automatic locks. When asked what would he do if he was the governor of Florida, little said that he would re-evaluate what what wrong and see if there were any signs that were missed.

“We can do all the things we can control, access, technology, screening, communications between teachers and counselors,” Little said. “Those are all things we can do and we should do.”

Little hopes to see more training and mental screenings to keep kids safe.