Ivanka Trump: belief

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…I love that one. Yeah, it’s amazing. It’s one of the largest pieces of conservation legislation since the National Park system was created. And over 300 million people visit our national parks, the vast majority of them being Americans every year. So this is something that is real and beneficial for people’s lives, getting rid of the deferred maintenance, permanently funding them. But there are other issues like that that just weren’t being prioritized. Modernizing Perkins CTE in vocational education. And it’s something I became super passionate about and help lead the charge on. I think in America for a really long period of time, we’ve really believed that education stops when you leave high school or college. And that is not true and that’s a dangerous way to think. So how can we both galvanize the private sector to ensure that they continue to train workers for the jobs they know are coming and how they train their existing workforce into the new jobs with robotics or machinery or new technologies that are coming down the pike. So galvanizing the private sector to join us in that effort. So whether it’s the legislative side, like the actual legislation of Perkins CTE, which was focused on vocational education or whether it’s the ability to use the White House to galvanize the private sector, we got over 16 million commitments from the private sector to retrain or re-skill workers into the jobs of tomorrow. Yeah, there’s so many aspects of education that you helped on, access to STEM and computer science education. So the CTE thing, you’re mentioning modernizing career and technical education. And that’s millions, millions of people. The act provided nearly $1.3 billion annually to more than 13 million students to better align the employer needs and all that kind of stuff. Very large scale policies that help a lot of people. It’s fascinating.…

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