Congratulations Board of Education

The Issue: New members of the Board of Education take office, a new beginning and new set of challenges.

Our View: Congratulations! March on with heads up high as you strengthen quality of instructions in PSS.

The educational estate plays a key role in any society in the preparation of its young people acquire lifetime skills through education. It also plays an important role in retraining retirees or those who missed basic high school education learn new skills so they can be productive members of the community.

The new age of information and technology makes it mandatory that the board explores the use of both in preparing our people for the challenges and benefits of this new age. It is, therefore, imperative that the board and school administrators jointly ensure that the NMI educational system doesn’t miss the road to the future in ensuring computer and technology literacy in our students. It’s the thing of the future. And the future is now!

The BOE has a daunting task not so much that there’s this challenge by the new age at the beginning of a new millennium, but because whatever it decides to undertake in this area will require funds to equip all classrooms throughout the NMI with computer hard and software as a basic tool of instructions. The financing of this need hinges on how well the local economy recovers from its doldrums.

With this in mind, it is comforting that both the administration and the newly installed 12th NMI Legislature are upbeat to making a difference in getting rid of strangling regulations to allow for expansion of current investments, including laying out the basic infrastructure to lure lasting investments into the Northern Mariana Islands. Such a mind set should open up windows of opportunities for wealth and jobs creation. The trickle effect should eventually filter down to the grassroots level in about three years.

The Board of Education also elected a new chairman whose task is to preside and guide the work of her colleagues in the thorough review, implementation of approved policies aimed at upgrading quality of instructions, and reviving a sense of community from parents so they take a proactive role in the education of their children.
With dedication, thoroughness and refinement of policies, the NMI should be well on its way to attaining its very goal of preparing young and old with lifetime skills to become productive members of the NMI Community.

Again, congratulations yan bief felis as you start addressing the task at hand.