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Participant Guide: Learn – Opportunities And Challenges

The Envision Participant Guide provides an in-depth exploration of the opportunities and challenges which may shape the future of Prince George’s County. A the heart of the Participant guide and the Envision initiative in general are six Envision areas - live, work, learn, enjoy, serve, and sustain , which provide a framework to examine the parts of life in the county we hope to impact. Today we examine the LEARN Envision area:

Opportunities

• Develop more youth programs to give them the support and training they need.
• Position community colleges to train the workforce needed for tomorrow.
• Expand workforce training in high schools, community college, and vocational schools.
• Partner small business training with existing organizations, such as Prince George’s Community College, University of Maryland, Bowie State University, and high schools.
• Utilize the National Children’s Museum, to open in 2013 at National Harbor, to educate about green choices and environmentally friendly and sustainable practices.
• Capitalize on the existence of strong faithbased organizations as resources.
• Leverage federal programs and funding expected to be part of the Obama Administration’s educational agenda.

Challenges

• Quality and reputation of public schools is a critical challenge.
• Public school system consistently under preforms and has significant budget problems.
• Teachers are overworked and underpaid.
• Difficulty of reform in a large school system.
• High dropout rates.
• Community colleges competing in a challenging market with more on-line training opportunities.
• Few higher education opportunities in southern part of the county.

For much more background on our county, please download and review the Envision Participant Guide (note: This is a large 2MB PDF file), and look for many more Participant Guide excerpts here at the Envision blog.

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