http://wwj.typepad.com/michigan_future/2007/05/one_d_talks_tra.html The One D regional economic development continued Thursday morning at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Conference with a breakfast meeting of the One D leadership team.
The session covered the five initiatives of the One D effort – economic prosperity, educational preparedness, quality of life, race relations and regional transit. Educational preparedness and regional transit received the most sharp commentary.
The educational preparedness effort includes a benchmark of getting every child in the region to read at grade level. Michael Brennan, president and CEO of the United Way for Southeastern Michigan, likened the effort that will require to the effort surrounding Super Bowl XL in 2006.
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