2012 Community Indicator Report - Human Capital Development and Education

Dear Friends:

The Center for Houston’s Future has added an important resource to ongoing efforts to advance the region’s sustainability and competitiveness. The 2012 Community Indicator Report – Human Capital Development and Education: Early Childhood, K–12, Workforce Preparedness is a peer reviewed report card for the region that establishes metrics for public education. The publication is a tool to facilitate good public policy decisions by making available reliable, longitudinal data.

The Center for Houston’s Future has produced this report through extensive collaboration involving more than 50 organizations. Indicators of Early Education, K–12, and Post Secondary Success give a snapshot of where the Houston eight-county region stands in these critical areas. Clearly, the health of the region’s schools will help to determine the vitality of our future workforce and economy.

The 2012 Community Indicator Report is the fourth annual report in a series intended to help measure progress over time in key areas issues. Since 2007, the Center’s benchmark studies have covered topics including air quality, billboards, green buildings, litter and graffiti, parks and trails, tax delinquent lots, trees, water quality, water supply and resource use. By highlighting our region’s many successes and the critical areas of needed increased effort, the Center’s Community Indicator Report serves as the basis for ongoing collaboration to advance the Houston region as one of the top ten global communities in which to live and work.

The Center's Report Card on Human Capital Development and Education was released to the community at a public Symposium on February 10, 2012 at the George R. Brown Convention Center to an audience of more than 300. To view pictures from the symposium, click HERE!

For a glance at the 2012 Indicator figures, click HERE.

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To read the 2011 Indicator report, click here to download it.

 

The Community Indicator Study was generously supported by a grant from KBR.

 

Hard copies of the Indicator report are available by request - please send an email to msantosgaray@futurehouston.org