"Education for the Next Generation"

According to Dave Gordon, Superintendent of Schools for Sacramento County and Dave Butler, CEO of NextEd, America's schools are not preparing students for the world of modern work and certainly not for the world of tomorrow's work.  They discussed the need to prepare the students of the day for the jobs that are going to be prevalent in the next economy.  Not everyone is equiped to go to college and there needs to be a place to educate those for those jobs that need to be manned.  The job of our education society is to align education programs and policy to advance the economic objectives of our regional areas.  Programs that are being advanced are in the Medical Science and Construction areas with Agribusiness, Health care and IT programs being developed.