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Fewer students enrolled in higher education, particularly at community colleges, from 2019 to 2021. Further, this developing trend is happening at a time when employers are requiring highly educated workers, more so than for past generations. Fewer skilled workers could make a negative impression on the many businesses expanding in or moving to Texas. That puts the state’s strong economic footing at risk of stumbling.
Fiscal Notes shares the data and some of the reform proposals hoping to reverse declining enrollment. And read about the solutions Texas A&M University is already implementing aimed at getting students back in the classroom and interested in overlooked careers.
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