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Business Leaders Rate Education High
May 9, 2006
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
-Eileen Caddy

Preschool Matters (March/April 2006; www.nieer.org) reported on a survey of 205 senior executives of Fortune 1,000 companies where respondents viewed prekindergarten as essential to a better-educated workforce.  Some key findings:

  • 63% favored active support for universal preschool programs by the business sector;
  • 49% said the level of workers' skills had decreased over the last ten years;
  • 54% anticipate difficulty in finding enough educated and skilled workers to fill jobs in the future;
  • 38% said American firms already are at a disadvantage when compared to foreign firms based on workers' education;
  • 34% said their companies currently are recruiting candidates outside the United States to fill jobs requiring special skills or education;
  • 83% rated the importance of a skilled workforce as "very high" if the US is to remain globally competitive;
  • 81% said public funding of voluntary prekindergarten for all children would improve America's workforce.

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