NOVUS

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• October 2013, Energizer left Franklin County
• 165 were lost
• $600,000 of tax revenue never to return

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• Influential and important Vermont companies may leave.
• Thousands of workers would be unemployed.
• Millions of tax dollars would vanish. 
• Tax dollars that educate your children.

NYT September , 2002

Losing Business +
Low Population Growth + Higher Taxes

School Budget

New Business = Money for schools

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Novus- We're framing the future

Successful Businesses are
looking for these skills
Wagner (2002)

Agility and Adaptabilty

Effective Collaborators

Initiative and Entrepreneurism

Effective communication skills

critical thinking and problem solving

Accessing analyzing information

There is no such thing
as genuine knowledge
as fruitful understanding except as the offspring of doing. This is the lesson which all education has to learn.
(John Dewey)

NOVUS- The Future is NOW