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A Guide to Education to Business Partnerships
Essential to the dynamic growth of business in Florida will be our ability to train and prepare our workforce to meet the high demands of employers in our state for highly skilled, highly trained employees.Growth in productivity and economic development resulting in a state business climate that is vibrant and diversified will depend on how we respond now to the ever growing need for more students that are better prepared entering the workforce.
The Education to Business Partnership Project offers a template to businesses about how to initiate, develop, foster, and execute collaborative education/business partnerships that will substantively address your current and future workforce needs.
Compiled by the Florida Department of Education in cooperation with Enterprise Florida and several local partners, this how-to guide will include a broad spectrum of activities for employer participation and how to get started. Also included are models of successful education/business partnership programs currently being conducted around the state as well as a list of partnership program opportunities available with your educational institutions.
The Florida Department of Education is committed to ensuring students in our system are focused on career development through the state's career academy programs, workforce education programs, and high school reform programs. All these programs are designed to train and develop Florida's talent pipeline by building skills and qualifications for our K-12 student population.