State treasurer pushes need for college preparedness
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
By Chris Fitzsimon
By Natalie Jordan
Rocky Mount Telegram
Initiatives across the state have focused on reforming middle and high school education in efforts to not only decrease the dropout rate but to ensure students graduating have the necessary skills to be gainfully employed or to continue their education.
The past five years have brought a renewed interest in education in North Carolina, not only in policies but in middle and secondary curricula. After a visit Tuesday to the Nash-Rocky Mount Early College High School, N.C. State Treasurer Richard Moore said initiatives like the Early College are a potential solution.
"Allowing people in high schools to pull down a piece of college free to them," he said, "brings getting an education back into the grasp for more people."
Moore said he has two major ties to education – he sits on the N.C. State Board of Education, and he handles the pensions of every employee, including those in the N.C. Community College System and the 16 University of North Carolina campuses. He said as the state’s treasurer, he is responsible for the state’s money, about $75 billion.
"We spend so much time teaching skills to get a job," he said. "But we don’t spend enough time teaching you what to do with the money you get. People don’t do well with money.
"There are two kinds of people in this state: those who work their whole lives for money and those who let money work for them." (more…)
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