{"id":42797,"date":"2015-09-28T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/governors-and-private-sector-policy-leaders-to-make-recommendations-for-the-next-administration-and-the-nations-governors-on-boosting-academic-and-employment-rates-for-high-risk-youth\/"},"modified":"2015-09-28T17:50:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T21:50:04","slug":"los-gobernadores-y-lideres-del-sector-privado-formularan-recomendaciones-destinadas-al-proximo-gobierno-de-ee-uu-y-a-los-gobernadores-del-pais-sobre-como-mejorar-las-tasas-academicas-y-las-tasas-de-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/los-gobernadores-y-lideres-del-sector-privado-formularan-recomendaciones-destinadas-al-proximo-gobierno-de-ee-uu-y-a-los-gobernadores-del-pais-sobre-como-mejorar-las-tasas-academicas-y-las-tasas-de-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Governors and Private Sector Policy Leaders to Make Recommendations for the Next Administration and the Nation&#8217;s Governors on Boosting Academic and Employment Rates for High-Risk Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 28, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0<b><span class=\"xn-location\">Mississippi<\/span> Governor <span class=\"xn-person\">Phil Bryant<\/span><\/b>, Chair of Jobs for America&#8217;s Graduates, President of the Business Roundtable <b>Governor <span class=\"xn-person\">John Engler<\/span><\/b> and Executive Director of Gallup Education <span class=\"xn-person\">Brandon Busteed<\/span> will deliver remarks at the 9<sup>th<\/sup> annual National Thought Leaders Event being hosted by Jobs for America&#8217;s Graduates (JAG) <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 30<\/span><sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The event will feature a series of panels and working sessions with 100 plus leaders from the public and private sectors that will focus on the development of policies and programmatic strategies to combat the nation&#8217;s vast unemployment problems that exist for at-risk and disadvantaged youths. A partial list of panelists includes:<\/p>\n<p><b>Congressman <span class=\"xn-person\">Don Beyer<\/span> \u2013 <\/b>U.S. Representative, <span class=\"xn-location\">Virginia<\/span><br \/><b>Commissioner <span class=\"xn-person\">Mark Butler<\/span> \u2013 <\/b><span class=\"xn-location\">Georgia<\/span> Commissioner of Labor<br \/><b><span class=\"xn-location\">Louisiana<\/span> Representative <span class=\"xn-person\">Chris Broadwater<\/span> \u2013 <\/b>Representative, <span class=\"xn-location\">Louisiana<\/span> House of Representatives<br \/><b>Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Mona Mourshed<\/span><\/b> &#8211; Head of McKinsey&#8217;s Global Education Practice<br \/><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Scott Sanders<\/span> \u2013 <\/b>Executive Director of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies<br \/><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Luis Felipe Rodriguez Vega<\/span><\/b> \u2013 Head of Commercial Sales in U.S. of <span class=\"xn-location\">Western Union<\/span><br \/><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Brandon Busteed<\/span><\/b> &#8211; Executive Director of Gallup Education\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><b>Governor \u00a0Bryant<\/b>, the Chair of JAG&#8217;s Board of Directors, will be joined by four co-host organizations including <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Hal Smith<\/span>, <\/b>Senior Vice President of Education of the National <span class=\"xn-person\">Urban League<\/span>; <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Antonio Tijerino<\/span><\/b>, President &amp; CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation; <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Neil Horikoshi<\/span><\/b>, President &amp; Executive Director of the Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund, and <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Lynn Shotwell<\/span><\/b>, Executive Director of the Council of Global Immigration (an affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management) in hosting the event.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The roundtable is expected to produce a specific set of proven or promising policy and programmatic recommendations that Governor Bryant and the nine other Governors on the JAG National Board of Directors can take directly to state, federal and private sector leaders that have the power to implement them.<\/p>\n<p><b>WHAT:<\/b>\u00a0JAG&#8217;s ninth annual <i>National Thought Leader Event<\/i>, Policies and Programmatic Solutions to Historic Levels of Youth Unemployment<\/p>\n<p><b>WHEN:\u00a0<\/b><span class=\"xn-chron\">Wednesday, September 30<\/span><sup>th<\/sup>, 2015<br \/>8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><b>Governor Bryant will deliver opening remarks at <span class=\"xn-chron\">8:10am<\/span>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>WHERE:<\/b>\u00a0Gallup, Inc.<br \/>901 F Street NW<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span> 20004<\/p>\n<p><b>About JAG<br \/><\/b>Jobs for America&#8217;s Graduates (JAG) is a non-profit organization celebrating its 35<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary with a proven track record of helping at-risk young people graduate from high school and make successful transitions to postsecondary education or meaningful employment.\u00a0 JAG has served over <b>1 million<\/b> youth. It is currently assisting approximately 50,000 young people in over 1,000 community high schools, middle schools, community colleges, and other learning locations in 32 states to achieve academic, career and life success. Some 90% of the youth in the JAG National Network have successfully graduated and over 80% are working, in college, or both a year after graduation. More information about JAG can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jag.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.jag.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 28, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0<b><span class=\"xn-location\">Mississippi<\/span> Governor <span class=\"xn-person\">Phil Bryant<\/span><\/b>, Chair of Jobs for America&#8217;s Graduates, President of the Business Roundtable <b>Governor <span class=\"xn-person\">John Engler<\/span><\/b> and Executive Director of Gallup Education <span class=\"xn-person\">Brandon Busteed<\/span> will deliver remarks at the 9<sup>th<\/sup> annual National Thought Leaders Event being hosted by Jobs for America&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educacion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}