Upload
britney-manning
View
213
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
(4) To Elect or Appoint? Regarding the State School Superintendent
(9) Equity in Education – Access and Opportunity
(1) High Standards – The Value of a High School Diploma
(2) Assessments – How Much is Too Much?
(3) District Governance – Charter Systems, IE2, or Status Quo?
(5) Funding Reform – How Do We Divide the Pie?
(6) Early Learning – Challenge Accepted!
(7) Post-Secondary Success – The Key to Georgia’s Workforce
(8) Charter Schools – New Challenges
(10) Race to the Top – Now What?
Top Ten Issues - 2015
How is Georgia Trending?
Low-Birthweight Babies ≈ Students Earning AP
Credit Early Education Enrollment ≈ High School
Graduation Rate
Children in Poverty Adults with Associate’s Degree or Higher
4th Grade Reading Adults with a Bachelor’s Degree or Higher
8th Grade Math
Issue 6: Early Learning– Challenge Accepted!
Quality + Quantity = full benefits of early learning
1. Established Quality Rated2. Implemented Georgia Early Learning Development
Standards3. Provided resources for statewide family and community
engagement grants4. Expanded center-based home visitation programs for family,
friend and neighbor care5. Increased professional development of early care educators6. Developed comprehensive assessment system for early
learning
Early Education Empowerment Zones – E3Zs
Receive $1 million in targeted resourcesDevelop infrastructure to strengthen early learning systemsIdentify sustainable and replicable implementation strategies that can be scaled statewide
Issue 7: Post-Secondary Success – The Key to Georgia’s Workforce
72% high school graduation rate60% of jobs in 2020 will require some higher education
42% of Georgian’s currently have some education beyond high school
Action Steps for Georgia
Career Clusters
Complete College Georgia – including STEM initiatives and “Go-Back, Move Ahead”
High Demand Career Initiative
Strategic-Industries Workforce Development Grants
Zell Miller Grants
Questions Welcome Now & Anytime!
Dana RickmanDirector, Policy and Research