Beebe sets first in series of trips to promote education, economic development
Arkansas News Bureau
May 7, 2009
LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe is taking his education and economic development show on the road.
The governor scheduled stops Wednesday in Jonesboro, Blytheville and Trumann in the first of a series of such appearances the governor plans to make this spring and summer, Beebe spokesman Matt DeCample said.
The governor is scheduled to address a meeting of the Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday morning, then later planned to host Arkansas Works Summit educational meetings at Jonesboro High School and at Trumann and Blytheville high schools.
The trip is a follow up to an education and economic development summit the governor held in Little Rock in October, DeCample said.
“This is something he’s wanted to do for a while,” DeCample said, adding that the governor will meet with economic development leaders and educators, at the stops.
More than 1,400 government leaders, educators and business executives from all of the state’s 75 counties attended the Summit on Education and Economic Development in October. The summit focused the challenge of training and educating an adaptable work force able to compete for high tech jobs.
Beebe said during the October summit that Arkansas risks being relegated to the fringes of corporate desirability if an intelligent, highly trained work force that can compete globally for knowledge-based jobs is not immediately cultivated.
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