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Access to Child Care Creates Economic Mobility

Early childhood education is a critical component of achieving our True North Goal of increased living wage attainment among young adults in Dallas County, and it starts with expanding access to high-quality [...]
New Data Show A Decade Of Growth In Dallas County

In our ongoing work to develop a skilled workforce in Dallas County that can command living wages, it’s important to celebrate the educators who make [...]

More young Dallas County residents than ever before are achieving postsecondary credentials, according to Commit analysis of newly released census data. Specifically, the percentage of [...]

Research shows that students unable to read at grade level by third grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school than [...]

Early childhood education is a critical component of achieving our True North Goal of increased living wage attainment among young adults in Dallas County, and [...]

Fueling this funding has been Garland ISD’s leadership in the county on the percentage of students receiving industry certifications. This reflects the district's commitment to [...]

Uplift's success can be attributed in part to its comprehensive Road to College program, a transformative initiative starting in middle school and extending throughout students' [...]

Dallas ISD's decision to establish six early college high schools and offer P-Tech (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) programming with industry partners at [...]

Commit’s Managing Director of Early Matters Dallas, Amber Shields, is a former Dallas ISD elementary principal. She shared the impact of HQIM on her [...]

Years of data have made clear that educational attainment, the highest level of education an individual receives, is one of the strongest factors determining lifetime [...]

In our ongoing work to develop a skilled workforce in Dallas County that can command living wages, we want to pause to celebrate wins along [...]