Westchester Business Council to Host Forum on Business Engagement in Education in Rye

The Business Council of Westchester, in partnership with the Public Policy Institute of New York State (PPI) and the Committee for Economic Development (CED), will host a forum on Dec. 10 on the state’s new K-12 education standards and the role that businesses can play to support them.

The forum will take place from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at Hilton Westchester, 699 Westchester Avenue, in Rye Brook.

Dr. Salvador Fernandez, executive director of the School of Achievement, New York City Department of Education, will provide an educator’s perspective on the new standards for being college and career ready. Heather C. Briccetti, Esq., president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State will speak about how the employer community can support the standards’ implementation to help cultivate a globally competitive workforce. Allison Armour-Garb, an education consultant for PPI will provide an overview of the standards’ development, respectively.

“For most businesses as well as schools, having an objective way to determine progress isn’t radical or earth-shattering — it’s standard operating procedure,” Dr. Marsha Gordon, president and CEO of The Business Council of Westchester said in a press release. “We need such practices, and our children deserve no less. These assessments should be seen as a positive tool to ensure our students have developed the foundational knowledge and skills they will need for college and the workforce.”

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