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Black Enterprise Holds Symposium on America’s Public Education Challenges
Suzanne Walsh, Senior Program Officer, Postsecondary Success, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
“It is imperative that business leaders join forces with the academic community ensuring our schools are competitive,” says Black Enterprise CEO Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. “Black Enterprise has consistently sounded the call to address this crisis as the system even more egregiously fails the children it’s charged with educating and preparing for productive lives. If we are to have a strong workforce; we must have strong schools. We are proud to have the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase the focus on solutions that can ultimately resolve this crisis, solutions that cannot be successfully executed without business leaders being fully committed to reform public education.” The Gates Foundation is committed to ensuring all students in America have access to a great education.
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