How will Idaho get more workers with degrees? Higher ed task force begins search for answers

Idaho’s 7-year-old goal of getting 60 percent of its workforce ages 25 to 34 equipped with post-high school certificates or degrees by 2020 has evaporated.

When the goal was first created in 2010, Idaho’s rate was 38 percent. It has crept up 4 percentage points to 42 percent.

“We can’t do that,” said Gov. Butch Otter told the Statesman.

Otter and other key education leaders are unwilling to adjust the deadline.

“I don’t like the idea of setting targets too low and hitting them,” Otter said. “I like the idea of setting them way up high and striving to attain them.”

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