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OUR VISION - To Create alignment between business and education so that our region’s children achieve their greatest potential and our communities can capitalize on a talented workforce. OUR MISSION - Engage business leaders in education efforts that promote workforce readiness in an increasingly competitive and globalized world. OUR CORE VALUES

Student Focused – We are dedicated to measures that improve student achievement Accountability – Responsible for our commitments and responsive to our members and the media Innovation/Choice – Application of creative approaches to develop solutions with a proven ROI Transparency – Results should be available, concise and clear to all constituents ROI – Investments of time, talent and treasure must have measurable outcomes

Post Secondary

K-12 Birth to age 5

Business / Workforce Needs

A L I G N E D

POLICY CREATION / REMOVAL

National Skilled Labor Shortage

By 2020, it is estimated that there will be 123M high-wage, high-skilled jobs in the US;

• nly 50M U.S. citizens will be trained to fill those jobs.

National Security

75% of 17 to 24-year-olds are unable to join the military.

• Criminality (1/10 with conviction)
• Low Education (1/4 lack HS Diploma)
• Obesity (27% too overweight)

Missouri

 1,393,300 Under age 18 / 375,000 age 0-4

• Percent of fourth graders not proficient or grade level

…… Reading: 31% …… Math: 40%

• Percent of eighth graders not proficient or grade level

…… Reading: 23% …… Math: 30% 13% of high school students don’t graduate on time with a diploma

Annual expenditure per public school pupil is ~$10,500 Annual spending per prisoner per year: ~$17,500

A Workforce Productivity Issue

Gaps in reliable, quality childcare services undercut the efficiency and

• utput of the current workforce:

 The average employee misses 8-9 days/year due to child-related

absences costing employers $3 billion/year

 Breakdowns in child care are associated with parent-employee

absenteeism, tardiness, reduced concentration, higher employee turnover

The future workforce is being undercut by its inability to meet the skill demands of the modern job market

 Employers report deficiencies among high school graduates in terms of

the written, verbal, critical thinking and applied problem solving skills for entry level jobs

 ~93 million adult Americans operate at - or below - the basic levels of

functional literacy

 The gap is growing: the U.S. economy will add fewer educated workers

in the next 20 years, compared to the last 20 years

A Workforce Development Issue

Advocacy Lessons Learned

• Remove the barriers that keep education and business from playing well together!
• Engage business leaders as the ambassadors for this message from an economic

development lens.

• Work WITH the education community to promote access to quality for ALL children.
• Adequacy and Equity must be addressed for all children.
• Choice/Accountability/Transparency drives quality.

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

ACE officially forms, sponsors Early Learning Symposium in KC. Expands to Columbia, hires Missouri advocacy director. Wins include fully funded Children’s Initiative Fund (CIF) in KS; restoration and full funding of Early Childhood Development, Education and Care Fund (ECDEC) in MO. Wins include protecting the CIF in KS; funding for at-risk pre-K in state aid calculation and a trigger for statewide ECE funding in MO. Wins include CIF protection in KS; launch of RYH4K early childhood initiative in MO. Wins include CIF protection in KS; end on early childhood quality rating system ban & approval of Quality Assurance Report in MO. Wins include include full-day Kindergarten, CIF protection, fewer restrictions on PAT funding in KS; full-funding of K- 12, Pre-K funding triggered and more funding for quality in MO. Wins include CAEDE funding, and CIF and KEY protection in KS; Visiting Scholars, full- funding of PK-12 and sunset extension and funding for quality assurance report in MO.

Kate Ferrell Banks Aligned Board Chair / Owner, Ferrell Capital