Last Friday, Senator Steve Halloran, a St. Cecilia alumni, paid a visit to Hastings High School in order to build a relationship with the administration. In 2016, Halloran was elected to District 33, which includes Adams County and parts of Hall County.
Lately, Halloran has been working to visit a variety of local schools in order to make their administration “feel comfortable enough to contact us [the Senate] with any issues they have.”
Halloran, who supports fair state funding for the education system in Nebraska, believes schools are “clearly important because they are our future.”
Halloran holds a strong opinion on the importance of career classes in high schools.
“Back in the day… parents would traditionally very purposefully tell you that you have to go to [a liberal arts] college… there was no budging,” Halloran said about standards when he was a teenager. He is very impressed with the progress that society has made in beginning to urge kids into tech schools and considering other paths.
Aside from his goals for education in Nebraska, Halloran has been busy the past two years in the Senate. He has been focused on getting Congress term limits, reducing the national debt, and many other things.
The Hastings-born senator tells students interested in politics, “If there’s any interest at all, pursue it. Don’t let the process intimidate you. It isn’t as complicated as it seems.”
