Lisa A. Gray is the founding president of Ohio Excels. Gray’s career has been dedicated to improving the educational outcomes of ALL of Ohio’s students. She presented to our Club on November 5. 
Gray helped us understand more about Ohio Excels and talked about an exciting new tool that they created to gauge Ohio's progress in unleashing learning potential, creating economic mobility and preparing and empowering tomorrow's talent.
Reality Check begins by examining today’s open jobs paying more than $50,000 annually. It then considers jobs forecasted in 2031 and the expected education levels necessary to secure those jobs. To offer a snapshot, it compares the expected education levels associated with the forecasted jobs and the education and training outcomes of the Class of 2017, the latest available high school graduate outcome data.
To put the numbers in context, Reality Check identifies three “Essentials for Career Success” that affect learners in secondary education and four “Predictors of Future Success” that matter most for learners in their earliest years. Reality Check considers these the most significant levers to transform and improve Ohio’s education system.
Major corporations like Amgen, AWS, Google, Honda-LG, Intel, and others are joining longstanding employers in the state to launch significant new, high-tech investments. Sectors such as retail trade, advanced manufacturing, battery technology, information technology, renewable energy, telecommunications, and biological sciences are rapidly growing.
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