I'd like to address my first question to Ms. Flanagan.
I really admire and appreciate your engagement with youth. I've worked with youth for 20 years, so I recognize their potential. In fact, I've co-authored a book entitled Greatness in Our Teenagers, so I'm of the same philosophy that you are: it's there, and we have to do what we can to bring that greatness out.
You touched on something that I've experienced in education myself, and that is, loving parents often will select pathways for their children. My question for you is, what can we do as a federal government that would enable youth to recognize their gifts and pursue their dreams?
You've mentioned the bridging between industry and youth, but parents are often a hard sell with respect to this business of how you can't go to college and how you have to be university bound. What can we do as a federal government to empower youth, to give them the opportunities to pursue the areas of work they're interested in?