Lifetime Education/Lifelong Learning

Voters have good reason to be suspicious of any mayoral candidate who promises to fix our schools, as if this were a race for school board. This is about electing a mayor of the City of Pittsburgh. Only the Pittsburgh School Board has authority over our schools. The mayor's office has no hand in controlling the schools nor in setting school policy. Mayoral candidates who ignore this fact raise a question of their competency and/or their integrity.

But education is about more than K-12 and there are real policies, programs, and actions which a mayor of Pittsburgh can and should implement. David Tessitor's educational strategy reaches beyond the city schools to make available real Lifetime Education to all of Pittsburgh's residents, regardless of their age or economic status.

As a candidate for mayor, I, David Tessitor, do have some very strong concerns about education and some very real proposals which I would implement as mayor. I think these proposals draw a clear distinction between myself and the other candidates.

Lifetime Education/Lifelong Learning

Problem: The educationally neglected majority

When other mayoral candidates talk about our schools, they ignore the educational needs of non-school-age residents, yet these are the vast majority of the people living here. Many either dropped out or they graduated with less than an adequate education, some even being functionally illiterate. Others, possibly most, received what was a decent education at the time, but the world has changed and that education may be insufficient for today. On thing is certain, change will be happening even faster in our future.

Last year, the City of Pittsburgh school board decided it will no longer offer education beyond the high school level when it closed Connelly Vo-Tech, even after the state provided funding to cover Connelly's operating costs. This has further widened a growing void. Something must be done, but unfortunately throughout America our nation's public school systems are not up to the task. Pittsburgh may be no different than the others -- BUT we can be!

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:: Main Menu Home News Vision for the City Platform What Dave's done Current efforts Qualificatons Articles about Dave Articles by Dave Dave's Writings Contact us	The Tessitor Platform Synopsis Lifetime Education/Lifelong Learning Voters have good reason to be suspicious of any mayoral candidate who promises to fix our schools, as if this were a race for school board. This is about electing a mayor of the City of Pittsburgh. Only the Pittsburgh School Board has authority over our schools. The mayor's office has no hand in controlling the schools nor in setting school policy. Mayoral candidates who ignore this fact raise a question of their competency and/or their integrity. But education is about more than K-12 and there are real policies, programs, and actions which a mayor of Pittsburgh can and should implement. David Tessitor's educational strategy reaches beyond the city schools to make available real Lifetime Education to all of Pittsburgh's residents, regardless of their age or economic status. As a candidate for mayor, I, David Tessitor, do have some very strong concerns about education and some very real proposals which I would implement as mayor. I think these proposals draw a clear distinction between myself and the other candidates. Read more... the article Lifetime Education/Lifelong Learning Problem: The educationally neglected majority When other mayoral candidates talk about our schools, they ignore the educational needs of non-school-age residents, yet these are the vast majority of the people living here. Many either dropped out or they graduated with less than an adequate education, some even being functionally illiterate. Others, possibly most, received what was a decent education at the time, but the world has changed and that education may be insufficient for today. On thing is certain, change will be happening even faster in our future. Last year, the City of Pittsburgh school board decided it will no longer offer education beyond the high school level when it closed Connelly Vo-Tech, even after the state provided funding to cover Connelly's operating costs. This has further widened a growing void. Something must be done, but unfortunately throughout America our nation's public school systems are not up to the task. Pittsburgh may be no different than the others -- BUT we can be! 1 2 3 - Next >> The solution:	Question: Can an independent ever win? Answer: Two (2) out of four (4) of Pittsburgh's most recent mayors won the office as independent candidates!