Linking our... education and workforce
Our Goals
"High school students in the Sacramento region will be ready to enter the workforce and ready to pursue further education and training."
"The Sacramento region will create an integrated post-secondary education system that regularly collaborates with business, K-12 education and government."
"The region's post-secondary education programs will provide residents with access to the appropriate skills and knowledge to continually advance the economic well-being of the region and will produce initiatives to spark new areas of excellence."
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Our Rationale
It's a no-brainer: skilled people are fundamental to economic capacity. One of the greatest assets to any region is its people.
Recent history also demonstrates that regions with powerful education clusters are best-equipped to excel in today's knowledge-driven economy.
By creating a pipeline between education and the local workforce, we can help students find rewarding work right here at home – while constantly renewing our supply of skilled workers, entrepreneurs, researchers, managers, leaders and professionals.
We can meet job demands, provide and retain talent and help create a stronger quality of life for our employees.
Our Education initiatives aim to:
- Inventory our region's training programs and employment needs with an eye for how they can best align;
- Continue to increase business and community involvement in high-school education, since one of the best times to invest in people's interests and cultivate talent is during their formative years;
- Identify, support and grow key post-secondary disciplines that are critical to our region's ongoing competitiveness.
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Latest News & Action
The Partnership for Prosperity's Education Team includes project partners, elected officials and other community leaders who meet regularly to identify and act on tactics to help align our educational systems and local economy.
Here's some of the latest news from the PFP Education team and the region:
July 2007:
University of Phoenix receives business accreditation
Only a quarter of all business schools earn program accreditation from one of the two business schools accrediting organizations...
July 2007:
Sac State starts first doctoral program
California State University Sacramento will offer students a doctor of education degree in educational leadership, the first for the university -- and one of only seven state universities starting the doctoral program...
May 2007:
Study: California is suffering 'brain drain'
California faces a severe shortage of skilled workers if doesn't turn out additional college graduates who stay and work here or attract more from outside the state and the nation, a new Public Policy Institute of California study concludes...
March 2007:
Workforce study will help ID opportunities to align education, business
The PFP Education Team is guiding a comprehensive study of the Sacramento region's workforce status, needs and opportunitites. We plan to announce results at LEED's "Convergence IV: Regional Competitiveness" event this winter...
March 2007
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KVIE special explores region's workforce status, needs
Are Valley workers ready to compete in tomorrow's economy? This edition of KVIE's New Valley series explores the health of our educational system and whether we're building the qualified workforce that industry requires, while providing the quality of life our workforce deserves...
November 2006:
Sacramento ‘people’ rank high in the Regional Prosperity Index
The Sacramento Region posted a high score on the People component of SACTO's 2006 Prosperity Index....
June 2006:
PFP education strategies embedded in partners' work
Each partering organization in the Partnership for Prosperity has committed to include the strategies from the PFP regional business plan in its own work. An example: countless references to PFP in meeting agendas and minutes from Sacramento Works, the region's local workforce investment board...
June 2006:
PFP part of Sacramento State's Destination 2010 plan
PFP helps the college partner in regional development, one of its strategies to become a premier metropolitan university and a destination campus...
November 2005 :
PFP a part of UC Davis strategic plan
UC Davis Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef represents the university in Partnership For Prosperity. The school is a major participant and sponsor...
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Contact
Partnership for Prosperity action teams meet regularly for detailed strategic planning sessions. Each team includes 12-25 project partners, elected officials and other community leaders who volunteer to link their
organizations' work to the Partnership for Prosperity's regional business plan.
For more information, contact Margaret Teichert at (916) 325-1630 or write margaret.teichert@valleyvision.org.
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