The Back Burner Crisis

Today's PD paper missed the biggest headline opportunity. Go to Business D-3, left hand corner: Study: More than half of U.S. workers lack basic education.

If you care at all about the region, this article should have been on the front page.

Look at the stats and you will realize that we are deep trouble on many fronts: manufacturing, K-12 education, post graduate education, employment, etc. Perhaps the most alarming sentence was this: "Young Americans now are the first generation in history to be less educated than the previous generation".

Why? If we look beyond a silo sector perspective (only the education perspective), we can imply assumptions that greatly influence these crisis condition: poverty, national debt, credit card debt, mental health, family instability, declining achievement gap indicators, health care insurance and costs, underemployment, etc....

The truth is, we simply can blame NOR SOLVE this educational crisis on Title I and Title II funding. The truth is, the issues go much deeper to causes which influence the growing lack of value for education and the growing lack of ability to create a vision for success.

People, it seems, just don't have the drive or ability to find value in education.

Community Transition Partners is open to participating and leading discussions related to this most important crisis. In my opinion, nothing else in the paper today matters - if this trend continues.