Keeping people in Kansas after they graduate high school or college has been a major problem for the past 10 years. Over 183,000 people have left. Franklin County Development Council Director, Paul Bean, and other Economic directors in the State met gubernatorial candidate Derek Schmidt recently to discuss what can be done to keep graduates here. He called it an “employee drain”:
Bean says creating pipelines between local high schools, universities and industry to train students to be ready for jobs when they graduate in one main feature they are trying to set up.
