The same increasingly serious and complex issues facing our local communities, as well as all global communities, require close cooperation and commitment from all citizens working in cooperation with our government leaders. Tackling air and water pollution, melting permafrost, food and energy insecurity, eroding of personal freedoms of speech, liberty and honest free elections, are among the most prominent examples of problems that need solutions now. Our civilized world needs to strive for peace, not war.
Finding solutions to the above problems require a highly educated, informed citizen capable of understanding the complex nature of the scientific, technical and humanitarian interrelationships each problem and solution requires. In order for this to happen, we need to provide an improved education for all boys and girls throughout the world, starting in our own neighborhoods. Only by providing high quality education from pre-K through high school will the necessary intellectual skills of reading, writing, language and oral expression, mathematical ability, logic and critical thinking, be taught and valued in our societies.
Les Gara supports high-quality education and has vowed to support his understanding of the need to educate our children in order to create educated citizens to work with our government to solve our global problems. He supports small class sizes that increase academic achievement. He supports the need to financially support school construction and maintenance, as well as keeping school funding consistent with the cost of inflation.
Vote for Les Gara for the next governor of Alaska if you agree with me that quality education is the key for peace and prosperity on Earth.
— Edward C. Godnig
Palmer
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