Competitive City Action Network: Fix the Basics 2 - Higher Education Initiatives

Just as education opens the door to personal prosperity, the knowledge and skills of a community’s workforce determine its prospects for economic success. Beyond Merger documented the urgent need to substantially raise education attainment and the skills of the region’s workforce as an essential step to enhancing its competitive position.

In Louisville Metro, the agenda to raise education attainment is gaining traction, as the key graphic shows. From 1990 – 2000, Louisville Metro led its peer cities in the rate of reduction in the percentage of residents who lacked a high-school diploma and in the rate of increase for the percentage with a bachelor’s degree.

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