10 urgent strategies

1. Strengthen and support families.

2. Provide early-learning networks to help parents ready their children for school.

3. Re-imagine learning to incorporate the 21st Century technology and the Gig into classrooms.

4. Make reading a priority.

5. Make great teaching a priority, and increase the number of highly effective teachers in classrooms.

6. Empower and support principals — with training, not just lip service.

7. Focus on equity in community schools to make all schools good schools.

8. Prepare all students for college and career.

9. Increase post-secondary completion.

10. Connect more residents to high-paying jobs.