Georgia education leaders announced a plan Tuesday to work more closely with business leaders and sharpen the state’s focus on career education.
The initiative, Educating Georgia's Future Workforce, will include efforts to encourage more public school students to study international business, offering economic development resources to educators and business partners and working with Harvard University's Pathways to Prosperity project to analyze the state's Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education initiatives.
“Georgia’s students must leave our schools with skills that prepare them for higher education or to immediately begin a career,” state school superintendent Richard Woods said in a statement. “It’s essential that we offer the very best career education available, responsive to the changing economic landscape and aligned to the needs of business and industry. This initiative will bring all stakeholders to the table to strengthen our career, technical, and agricultural education offerings and ensure students are being prepared with skills that will serve them well in the workforce of the future.”
A state report earlier this year raised concerns that Georgia does not have enough skilled workers to replace its aging workforce, particularly in areas like engineering and computer programming.
