Opportunity Agenda
Opportunity Agenda
My goal is to positively affect lives with a message of hope and opportunity, and my Opportunity Agenda is a direct reflection of that. It is founded on the principle that all Americans should have the opportunity to succeed.
The CHOICE Act seeks to expand opportunities and foster success by providing students and parents greater choice when it comes to education. It empowers the parents of a child with a disability to choose the right school by making federal IDEA dollars portable, and expands access and awareness of the successful school choice program in Washington, D.C. I strongly believe that great teachers can make all the difference in a child’s life and every student should have access to the school that best suits their unique needs.
Senator Scott offered the SKILLS Act as an original part of his Opportunity Agenda, which he announced last January. Many key components of the SKILLS Act, whose main focus was delivering high-quality, efficient job training services to Americans who need them most, were incorporated into a bipartisan compromise, WIOA, which was signed into law on July 22, 2014.
The Southern Energy Access Jobs Act (SEA Jobs Act) expands America’s energy production to offshore Atlantic states to increase responsible offshore energy production, create jobs, grow the economy, lower energy prices, spur new educational training programs, and strengthen America’s national security by lessening dangerous dependence on foreign countries for energy.
The Leveraging and Energizing America’s Apprenticeship Programs (LEAP) Act, provides a tax credit to employers to help increase the number of registered apprenticeships in the U.S. to put more people to work and help fill the 4 million job vacancies across the United States.
Introducing My Opportunity Agenda on the Senate Floor
