SPEAKER APPOINTS REPRESENTATIVE MELVIN EVERSON
TO THE HOUSE STUDY COMMITTEE
ON MARKET-DEMAND SKILLS EDUCATION IN HIGH SCHOOLS

ATLANTA—Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram) has tapped State Representative Melvin Everson to the House Study Committee on Market-Demand Skills Education in High Schools.

“I am pleased that Representative Everson has accepted this responsibility,” Richardson said.  “I am confident that he will do a great job for our state.”

The committee will make recommendations to the next 2007 General Assembly on ways to encourage youth to complete high school with the skills necessary to gain employment. The study committee was created because the Georgia House is concerned with the unemployment rates of youth between the ages of 16-19, and believes that an increase in the number of skilled workers can improve the state’s economic development.

The committee was created by the passage of House Resolution 1048, authored by Rep. Fran Millar.  The study committee will end its meetings on December 31, 2006.

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