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Candidates push to restore FFA, expand CTE and boost community partnerships for more student opportunities
Summary
Candidates endorsed strengthening career-technical education, restoring a previously larger FFA program and expanding community partnerships and volunteer involvement to broaden extracurricular opportunities. They noted funding limits and encouraged creative, community-led solutions.
Multiple candidates at the Granite Falls forum said expanding programs'career and technical education (CTE), work-based placements and extracurriculars'helps students find a place to belong and builds readiness for life after graduation.
"One of the programs that I'm a little bit sad about is, apparently, we had a very good FFA program a year ago with multiple animals, and that's something that we lost," one candidate…
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