Projects and Programs

Priorities for 2018

• Support implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act, with an emphasis on encouraging the creation of state accountability systems focused on career readiness, high academic standards, rigorous coursework, end-of-year assessments aligned to standards, and closing the achievement gap.
• Advance efforts at the federal and state levels that provide more educational options for parents and students.
• Improve career readiness by leveraging the business community to address challenges involved in managing employer engagement, scaling work-based learning, identifying industry-recognized credentials, securing employer endorsements, and evaluating performance.
• Encourage better alignment between high school graduation requirements, state academic achievement standards, and postsecondary entrance requirements.
• Back efforts to generate more U.S. graduates with a credential in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) field.
• Work to ensure that institutions of higher education (traditional and nontraditional) are held accountable for their performance—both academically and financially—and that they provide transparency to empower students, parents, employers, and policymakers to make informed decisions.
• Advocate for improving financial aid programs and systems, including private sector innovations in higher education finance, that work to improve college access and affordability while incentivizing outcomes.
• Promote improvements in the quality of higher education data.
• Advocate for eliminating regulations that diminish choice of providers and deter innovation.

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