<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/stories/workforce-shortages-nontraditional-learners.html" dsn="news"><hide/><featured/><pubDate>02/09/2023</pubDate><title>President’s Message: Workforce shortages, nontraditional learners, P-16 partnerships take center stage in 2023</title><description>Learn about CPE’s focus areas for 2023, which are guided by hundreds of hours of conversations with educators, state officials, students and business leaders as well as quantitative data on the state’s progress toward our education attainment goals.</description><image><img src="/_resources/images/AT-presmsg-2022.jpg" alt="Aaron Thompson"/></image><tags><tag>president</tag></tags></item>