{"id":348479,"date":"2021-07-23T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=348479"},"modified":"2021-07-23T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T20:06:16","slug":"boe-checks-nmti-summer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/boe-checks-nmti-summer-program\/","title":{"rendered":"BOE checks NMTI summer program"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_348481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-348481\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BOE-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-348481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PSS<br \/>Members of the Board of Education and some members of CNMI Public School System leadership check in on the classroom of Northern Marianas Technical Institute\u2019s culinary instructor Chef Ben Babauta Jr. yesterday morning. (PSS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Board of Education chair Andrew L. Orsini, vice chair Herman Atalig, and Education Commissioner Dr. Alfred B. Ada dropped by the Northern Marianas Technical Institute yesterday as part of efforts to expand the partnership between the Public School System and NMTI.<\/p>\n<p>The three PSS officials sat in on classes that were in progress as part of NMTI\u2019s summer program for 40 Tanapag Middle School students and also visited NMTI\u2019s culinary, automotive, welding, electronics, and construction classes. <\/p>\n<p>In a brief interview with Orsini, he spoke on the need to further develop the local workforce. He said it is important that he and the board think futuristically when it comes to PSS students, and see the need to develop the CNMI\u2019s local workforce in the long-term. \u201cWe never know. \u2026The foreign labor that [the CNMI has] right now is good, but we don\u2019t know when [a] phase-out [of these foreign workers] may occur. If that happens, at least we\u2019re prepared with our local people,\u201d said Orsini.<\/p>\n<p>Orsini said he was pleased with what he saw yesterday and hopes to see more opportunities in the future. \u201cHopefully next year we can [expand] more into these, and I think it\u2019s great because all the students we\u2019ve met so far from our visit at [the Northern Marianas College] and then over here, I think it\u2019s a wonderful thing, it\u2019s a beautiful thing,\u201d said Orsini. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board of Education chair Andrew L. Orsini, vice chair Herman Atalig, and Education Commissioner Dr&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":348573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39,479],"class_list":["post-348479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-boe","tag-nmti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}