South's Schools Failing To Meet Demands, Report Says

By Drew Lindsay

Schools in the South are failing to equip students for a new economy taking root in the region, a report says.

Booming economic and population growth has brought the Southern states new vigor and muscle, it says, but this "golden age" will be short-lived unless the region's education systems retool.

"Demographic trends and inadequate education threaten the South's march to prosperity," says the report by MDC, nonprofit research group in Chapel Hill, N.C., that studies workforce and economic-development issues. The study was to...