But i am watching over everybody, jerry. Youre in good hands, okay . Thank you. Youre in good hands, believe me. You can tell the people of new york. Even though i didnt win new york state. I should have won new york state, but i didnt. Mr. President , cathy. I want to return to a conversation we had with ivanka, dean and wilbur on jobs, the work force of the future. As we think about that and think about our skillsets, in new york city alone, our Public High School Graduation Rate is at 70 . But the readiness of our students for college and careers is only assessed at 37 . As we look at the pace of change, we look at the Digital Transformation we all see in business in the marketplace, and look at the skills, this disconnect between what employers need and what our students are coming into our work forces are prepared to deliver. It would be great to get your
thoughts on the priorities of the administration around education, around, again, what i like to call not the future of work bu
public/private partnerships, apprenticeship models, which we have a beautiful model that works and brings our next generation of leaders. i do think there is a lot we can do through re-looking at funding programs. we talked earlier about consolidating the many programs that are out there. we re all trying to make our individual impact. we can make a huge impact together. sure. i know you work very hard on it, and you have made progress. charter schools are another thing that people are talking about a lot. some of the charter schools of new york have been amazing. they ve done incredibly well. people can t get in. you can t get in. it s been i don t call it an experiment anymore. it is far beyond an experiment. if you look at so many elements of education, and so sad to see what s happening in the country. even the numbers, as good as you say we re doing better, but the numbers in new york, the numbers in chicago are very rough. the numbers in los angeles.
i think we talked earlier about public-private partnerships, apprenticeship models, which we have a beautiful apprenticeship model that works and brings them, our next generation of leaders. so, i do think there s a lot we can do through relooking at funding programs. we talked earlier about consolidating the many programs that are out there. we re all trying to make our individual impact, and we can make a huge impact together. sure. and i know you work very hard on it, and you have made progress. charter schools are another thing that people are talking about a lot, and some of the charter schools in new york have been amazing. they ve done incredibly well. people can t get in. i mean, you can t get in. it s been, i don t call it an experiment anymore. it s far beyond an experiment. if you look at so many elements of education and it s so sad to see what s coming, what s happening in the country. even the numbers, as good, you say we re doing better, but the numbers in new york,