Fresh ideas to advance education policy in the Show-Me State, from early care to teacher recruitment

A decade ago, I sat in the office of Tim Wolfe, the then-president of the University of Missouri System, alongside my friend and Aligned Co-Founder Tyler Nottberg. We were starting a business leader-led education advocacy organization to promote policies that would prepare students for success in work and life. Conventional wisdom told us to start with higher education since it's the last stop on the road to the real world. But much to our surprise, Wolfe shared a very sobering statistic: 20% of…