As scary as change may be to some, it often serves as the key component to progress. With that in mind, we couldn’t be more excited to learn from the Alabama State Superintendent of Education Tommy Bice himself the innovative changes the State Department of Education is willing to do to bring improve our public school system.

Bice visited Selma High Wednesday to discuss the details of Plan 2020 as a part of the department’s Future of Public Education Tour. For about an hour, Bice suggested some effective ways the department is helping Alabama public school students reach a graduation rate of 90 percent or higher by 2020, such as teaching students of all ages with advanced technology.

He spoke about the state’s public school system exposing students to college and career ready material that can truly help them succeed in life.

With the 80 percent goal met earlier than expected, we’re excited to see how far our system can go.

Our state superintendent has shown that he truly cares about the students, educators and the overall general public by visiting schools in each in each of the eight State Board of Education board districts.

Bice even took about 30 minutes of his precious time to answer some questions presented by the Tuesday’s audience before he left to visit Birmingham.

He even took a few moments following the question and answer segment ot chat with a few of our local residents, a true sign of someone willing to hear everyone’s input and address our concerns.

We only hope that those who heard his presentation took in all that Bice had to offer. As great as those ideas were, they are nothing without people willing to help execute them or make the process easier.

We should all try our best to be more active than  reactive in how we approach problems within the  educational public school systems. Like Bice said, we should all do our part to make sure the system creates a better tomorrow for our education system and the students who will benefit from it.

We can only hope that this won’t be the last times our state superintendent visits Selma to spread wisdom.