Roane County Employer's Association - Making Roane County the First K-14 Community in Tennessee

Please join us for lunch for "Making Roane County the First K-14 Community in Tennessee" presented by Wade Creswell, CEO/President of the Roane Alliance.

K-14 is an educational model that incorporates Roane County's post-secondary institutions into public high school career pathways that enable students to graduate high school with a college degree or certificate. 

Join Wade as he delivers a vision for education within Roane County and its potential to bring transformative change that can:

• Increase opportunities for our students to obtain a college degree or certificates
• Increase skills of our citizens to obtain higher paying jobs & earn higher lifetime earnings.
• Provide a new environment for learning and pathways to the careers of tomorrow
• Increase the number of qualified applicants for our businesses and increasing competitiveness
• Reverse the downward population trends in our county that lead to a "death spiral."
• Increase new housing developments, new retail growth and economic growth
• Give our kids a reason to stay in or come back home to Roane County
• Reverse our Opioid Epidemic - which is killing one person every 12 days - in Roane County