弗吉尼亚免费的年度午餐

迈克·佩特斯(Mike Petters)的言论(准备)
嗨Corporate 劳动力发展

谢谢保罗。

如果弗吉尼亚自由的目标是加强弗吉尼亚州的繁荣商业环境,我认为我们都会回顾2018年的转折点。

That has little to do with my company, Huntington Ingalls Industries … Though we’re proud to be partnered with the commonwealth to hire as many as 7,000 shipbuilders in Newport News over the next five years.

弗吉尼亚的迈克·佩特斯
迈克·佩特斯(Mike Petters)

这与最近宣布弗吉尼亚是亚马逊HQ2比赛的两名获胜者之一有关的一切。

As a champion of workforce development, I loved the fact that Virginia’s economic incentives included investments in elementary, secondary and higher education. And if I were giving the incentive package an Amazon Customer Rating, I would say it was almost a 5.

至少从这个客户到早期教育的投资,将获得完美的评级。

You see, at HII, a Fortune 400 company that builds military warships and is the largest manufacturing employer in Virginia—we strongly believe we must do more to invest in the beginning of the workforce development pipeline.

我会告诉你这是一个国家安全问题。

Why?

因为我们在HII上建造的船只是国家目的的陈述。当我们的航空母舰航行全球,保护我们和我们国家的利益时,它们代表了美国的工业实力和经济繁荣。

它们代表了成千上万的人才和意志,他们设计,建造,测试和维护他们。最重要的是,它们代表了航行他们的最佳和最聪明的人,如果需要,他们将他们带入捍卫我们的民主的方式。

由于这些属性,这些船也是关于使美国在全球竞争激烈的声明。

一部分使我们能够建造这些船只,并让它们由我们国家最好的船员组成,这是我们对教育的投资 - 一开始就开始。几年前,我听到当时的海军雷·马布斯(Ray Mabus)秘书谈论该服务的招募挑战。

他说,看看美国18至25岁之间的人口。然后带走没有高中文凭的任何人。任何有身体健康问题的人。任何有犯罪记录的人。您剩下的大约是人口的25%。这就是海军和其他服务正在招募的“人才库”。

当我听到这一点时,我也想:我也是如此。四分之一是一个惊人的起诉。

Now take that to an elementary school classroom. One in four students in that classroom will ultimately be employable. The other three will face challenges that, frankly, we all will pay for.

Ask any pre-school educator, and they will tell you they can predict which of their students will be successful by how they learn in the classroom even at that early age. So pre-K schooling is not only A solution … it is THE solution that can change the future for those students.

11月,我很荣幸参加Readynation在幼儿时期的全球商业峰会。Readynation是强大美国理事会的一部分,促进了建立更强大劳动力和经济的公共政策和计划。

因为其成员(超过2,000名商业主管)知道,幼儿教育可以预测儿童在就业市场上的成功。

现成报告:

  • 幼儿时代是孩子获得21世纪工作所需的许多技能(包括认知和性格技能)所需的许多技能的时期。
  • Children’s brains develop 1 million synapses—the neural connections that support learning and skills—every second. By age 3, a child’s brain has reached about 85 percent of its adult weight.
  • Disadvantaged children can start kindergarten as much as 18 months behind their peers. Many of these children never catch up and are at increased risk of dropping out of high school.

A large part of the problem is that public education—in most of the United States, at least—doesn’t begin until a child is 5, and some parents will even “red shirt” their children until they’re 6.

实际上,经合组织是经济合作与发展组织,表明美国只有91%的5岁儿童入学。这仅低于经合组织的平均95%。

但是对于3岁和4岁的孩子来说,数据更加令人震惊。在美国,只有38%的3岁儿童参加了一项学龄前课程。经合组织的平均值为75%。

And only 67 percent of 4-year-olds are enrolled in a pre-school program. The OECD average is 88 percent.

翻译:在我们之前,世界其他地方开始对孩子进行教育。

世界上许多其他地方的教育比我们更好。这个问题只会随着时间的流逝而变得更糟。教育工作者会告诉您,未在三年级的年级读书的孩子丢失。

在HII的造船厂,我们知道您越早发现并解决了价值流中的问题,就越成功。与以后的阶段相比,解决问题的解决方案也将更具负担。

教育也是如此。

And any educator will tell you that it’s much preferred—with a higher chance of success—to prevent problems at the beginning of a child’s education than in the middle or especially toward the end of secondary school.

This is where the discussion shifts from strictly educational issues to socioeconomic ones—like cost and accessibility.

当您考虑托儿和早期教育的成本与弗吉尼亚州的中位收入的成本时,我认为我们可以同意一个有两个工作父母和一个孩子的家庭的障碍。但是,如果您添加一个……或两个……或三个孩子怎么办?

What if one of the parents doesn’t work? Or what if it’s a single parent—which, according to data from the organization Kids Count—is the case for 31 percent of the families in Virginia …

如果他们生活在贫困中,弗吉尼亚州15%的家庭是哪些孩子计算的报告怎么办?

有些孩子去Pre-K的事实是因为他们的家人能够负担得起,而其他孩子不去,因为他们的家人不能……在正规公共教育开始之前,在“ haves”和“ haves-nots”之间造成了裂痕。

We see the consequences down the line, and that’s a shrinking pool of applicants years before most workforce development efforts begin. Government wrestles with this issue all the time, but let’s talk about what businesses can do.

我们这些深切致力于教育和劳动力发展的人知道这不仅是一个社会问题。这也是一个经济问题,以这种方式构建它应该使我们团结起来,致力于解决方案。

To my colleagues in the business community: We can—and should—take a leadership role. And we should work with government and education to do so.

我将以HII为例。

Bill Ermatinger, who many of you know, is our chief human resources officer. He serves as chairman of the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation’s board of directors. He’s also a board member and past chair of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce, which published “Blueprint Virginia 2025” last December. And Jennifer Boykin, president of HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division, was vice chair for the effort.

蓝图包括与幼儿教育有关的七个目标:

  • Improve access to affordable, high-quality early childhood education for Virginia’s working families.
  • Encourage employer policies and strategies that support access to high-quality early learning for families.
  • 通过确保获得负担得起的能力建设证书并探索重视和保留该人才库的策略来保护早期的教育劳动力。
  • 扩大公私合作伙伴关系和弗吉尼亚学龄前倡议的混合交付。
  • 建立一个综合的幼儿数据系统,以告知融资和决策决策并促进问责制。
  • 创建一个综合的公私融资模型,以促进为高危儿童提供创新,灵活和协作的方法。
  • 探索基于绩效的融资政策,这些政策是弗吉尼亚州质量改进框架的一部分,激励和维持高质量的幼儿服务。

我们还在Newport News Shipbuilding的Chavis Harris上担任弗吉尼亚州筹码的董事会成员,该网络负责增加成千上万弗吉尼亚州的低收入儿童及其家人获得医疗保健的机会。

在密西西比州的Ingalls造船部门,丹妮丝·琼斯(Denise Jones)在Excel的董事会中由5(一个基于社区的计划)登上Excel董事会,该计划强调了社区在成长期间对孩子教育的重要角色。

除我们的人才资源外,我们还为这些组织提供财政支持。

In Newport News, we contribute every year to Smart Beginnings of the Peninsula, an initiative that creates community commitment to the school readiness of young children. Newport News Shipbuilding also supports the Downtown Hampton Child Development Center, one of the highest-rated child care facilities in the state and an integral part of our community.

两年前,我们启动了HII奖学金计划。除了向HII员工的儿童授予大专奖学金外,我们还将授予高达3,000美元的奖学金,用于学前准备就绪教育费用。

诚然,要使企业投资于学龄前教育,我们必须愿意对任何具体的投资回报率保持耐心。可以这么说,我们必须真正为“更大的利益”进行投资。

And that may be a hard truth for some to believe. Especially if you, like me, did not go to pre-K or even kindergarten. I didn’t start school until first grade myself.

对于我们大多数没有去的人来说,这是因为我们不必这样做。对我来说,这是50年前。

The work environment was a different place and, indeed, education was different than it is today. We didn’t know about how the brain developed at such an early age like we do today.

如今,这与当地竞争有关,而是全球竞争。我们知道世界正在较早开始。保持竞争力,我们也应该。

最重要的是,在当今的经济中,在当今社会中,PRE-K对于美国能够提供全球竞争性教育的产品至关重要。在幼儿园之前,我们必须培养对学习的热爱。

So whether you represent government, business, schools, parents, child care providers, faith communities—you drive the effort to lay the groundwork for school success and a more prosperous community.

但是我对弗吉尼亚州成员的行动呼吁是问自己:

我能够招募,雇用和保留明年成功的人吗?我可以与亚马逊竞争……最优秀和最聪明的人?从现在开始五年呢?十?二十?

我要您加紧努力,并在这个非常重要的问题中扮演领导角色。我们需要你。

If you do, we will ALL reap the rewards. And remember: This isn’t just an issue for Virginia or for my business or for yours. This is an issue for our country. It’s a national security issue.

这是我们今天必须解决的事情,要使我们的国家保持强大的明天。

回想一下我的讲话的开头,以及那些国家目的的统治者,将全球范围内的那些航空公司(国家目的的统计)。想想建造它们的男人和女人以及航行他们的男人和女人。

Think about how much stronger we could be if we were recruiting from a talent pool not of 25 percent, but of 50 or 75 or 100 percent. Early education for all can get us there.

结束时,我将归功于这家具有里程碑意义的酒店的同名。我们都知道托马斯·杰斐逊(Thomas Jefferson)的许多成就以及他对教育的价值。

但是,谁知道他的父亲没有正规的教育,他在5岁时(在那个时期)就读于学校,只是距离这里的塔卡霍(Tuckahoe)几英里?谁知道,如果他没有的话,我们的历史可能会有什么不同?

1800年,当他担任副总统时,杰斐逊在给约瑟夫·普里斯特利(Joseph Priestley)的一封信中写道:

“我感谢我的膝盖,他指导了我早期的教育,因为我拥有这种丰富的喜悦来源,而且我不会将其换成任何我可以买到的东西,而且自从获得以来就没有获得。”

我不知道杰斐逊是否可以想到亚马逊,这是一家市值1万亿美元的公司,在英联邦开展业务。但是我认为可以肯定地说,他希望“丰富的喜悦之源”(早期的教育),对于他追随他的每个美国人。

And he would want Virginia to lead the way.

谢谢你。

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