Notes from Lubbock: Economic Development is Rooted in Education. 3 Highlights.

The Editorial Baord at the Lubbock Avalanche Journal believes that education reform is imperative to economic vitality, quality job growth, and recruiting industries that can raise the wages of Texas. 

• More Texans need higher education degrees. Texas Higher Education Board wants to reach 60% by 2030.
• Texas is 25th in the world for post secondary education for Texans 25-34
  • But, 5th in the world for Texans 55-64
• Young Texans should be “prepared to leave high school and receive additional vocational/technical training is also very much needed to strengthen our workforce”

Lubbock Avalanche Journal