Degrees Quote by Frank Murphy

If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient…

— Jay Weatherill

To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce…

— Adam Davidson

Many kids in Central Virginia do not see leadership in Silicon Valley that looks like them - we can start turning that around by…

— Abigail Spanberger

What makes Silicon Valley really work? It's a unique combination of great educational institutions - especially at Stanford - that generate engineers and a…

— John T. Chambers

It's all about making sure kids can have access to educational opportunities... you may not need a necessarily traditional college environment, but access to…

— Aja Brown

Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone…

— Sarah Lacy

More and more job fields require some form of higher education, and the pressure is on for schools to adequately prepare our students to…

— Mercedes Schlapp

So outside agriculture, in manufacturing and services, we must create a lot more jobs. But that also means that we must ensure that our…

— Manmohan Singh

If we create enough new companies, there will be additional opportunities for people at every rung of the educational ladder.

— Andrew Yang

There's been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It's not to say that you can't create that in other places, but…

— Dave McClure

“During one five-year period, from 1995 to 2000, the southern half of the valley region lost 3,000 people with bachelor’s degrees while adding 13,000…

— Linda Marsa

Fewer workers and fewer students mean our businesses struggle to fill the jobs they need to survive, deepening the economic divide from region to…

— Phil Scott