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A Signature Partnership Product
(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 Learning Challenge Grant
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
