Business Community Playing Bigger Role in Improving Nation's Education System - REPORT.WASHINGTON -- American businesses of every size are taking an increasingly active role in supporting reforms and improvements to the nation's schools in order to ensure a more qualified and competent workforce in the future, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report released today by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC BCLC Business Civic Leadership Center BCLC British Columbia Lottery Corporation BCLC Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer BCLC Breast Cancer Linkage Consortium BCLC Buffalo Criminal Law Center (State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law) ). Education is the top social issue that U.S. companies are supporting through their philanthropic phil·an·throp·ic also phil·an·throp·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or marked by philanthropy; humanitarian. 2. Organized to provide humanitarian or charitable assistance: and corporate citizenship Corporate Citizenship The extent to which businesses are socially responsible in meeting legal, ethical and economic responsibilities placed on them by shareholders. The aim it to create higher standards of living and quality of life in the community in which it operates, while programs, and BCLC estimates that corporate support for education reform was nearly $4.5 billion in 2005. "Nationwide, companies and chambers of commerce are working hard to address today's education and prepared-workforce issues that affect America's business competitiveness," said Lydia Miles Logan, national program manager for BCLC's Business Education Network. "Solutions require collaboration among the education-focused private-, public-, and nonprofit-sector organizations to ensure the U.S. does not fall behind the rest of the world." A copy of the report, "Business Education Partnerships in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. " is available online. www.uschamber.com/bclc/ |
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