Utah Schools Must Produce More Job -and College- Ready Graduates

Investing in a better educated and more skilled workforce is the most viable long-term strategy for helping America and Utah emerge from this crisis in a stronger and more competitive global economic position than we entered it.

The recent financial crisis has made policy wonks argue about short- and long-term solutions to the challenges we face. Philosophical debates about our independent banking system, stock market regulation, and federalism itself lace the halls of Congress, monopolize the water cooler chatter at our workplaces and overwhelm the blogosphere. However, there is one long-term solution to our economic situation with which very few informed individuals disagree.

By Randy Shumway, president of the Cicero Group 
and Dr. Trent Kaufman Executive Vice President of the Cicero Group

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