The Florida Senate

It is the intent of the Legislature to proactively shape Florida’s economic future through the collaboration of business, industry, and educational partners. The Legislature recognizes that Florida’s economic prosperity is dependent on tightly aligning educational outputs and outcomes with economic demands in order to shape the future economy of the state. The Legislature further agrees with national and state experts in their assessment that education will continue to play an instrumental role in Florida’s ability to compete in the 21st century global economy and that inevitable demographic changes necessitate a collaborative and comprehensive prekindergarten-20 dialogue between educational and industry experts in order to define and recommend aligned solutions. Therefore, the Legislature intends to establish a formal business and education collaborative to perform activities and make recommendations to legislative and state policy boards toward defining and attaining Florida’s economic goals.

The Florida Business and Education Collaborative is established as a state-level advisory group to the Governor; the Legislature; the State Board of Education; the Board of Governors of the State University System; boards of independent colleges, universities, and career schools; and other interested parties.