Good education and the properly funded system that provides such, does have an impact on the job market and helps determine whether a larger firm invests in a community.

The key issue is how do we fund the system while raising the bar of study? I suggest we continue the quest to fund our school systems through the state rather than the taxing districts. Based on income, the working poor and middle class will reap the most benefit from such a system.

It works in a number of industrialized nations across the world and yet this great country still struggles with funding education.

Our children's education should be second only to their health when thinking of our investment in the future. Although the Common Council has little or nothing to do with the actual financial support of our schools, I will advocate for the initiative to rethink our method of funding.