Current Number of Ideas: 339

Topic: Workforce/Education

Evaluate and improve education, pre-school through adults.

Billings needs to catch up on the digital age. I feel we are a few years behind big cities when it comes to trends on the internet. For example: yelp.com, groupon, livingsocial, and companies that have their own websites.

Work to get SD 2 to recognize the need to encourage students to use the Career Center.

Work to connect businesses and their needs to City College. Better offerings tied to needs of the region should result in good job placement and a rising respect for City College.

We need more large companies to come into town. Yes the unemployment rate is low, but there are too many minimum wage type jobs and not enough high end jobs in this town. If we want more people to move to the area, we need to entice them with more than minimum wage jobs.

Why doesn't eastern or rocky expand. ? Especially petroleum or computer programming? Can we get more aggressive growth? Perhaps university of wyoming?

Develop a two-way mentoring program between seasoned and young professionals.

Look at ways to improve k-12 graduation rates.