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Current Event Posting #1
Topic: Education
Title of article: Money Urged For Colleges to Perform Job Training
Author: Tamar Lewin
Publication Name: The New York Times
Date of Publication: February 13, 2012
Length: 425 words
Main Ideas:
Obama has proposed an $8 billion "Community College to Career Fund" in order to train two million workers for well paying jobs in high-demand industries. The fund would need to be approved by Congress and administered by the Departments of Labor and Education. The goal of this bill is to reinforce partnerships between community colleges and businesses to train workers in different career areas, such as health care, transportation, and advanced manufacturing. In 2009, community colleges only received $2 billion for job training from the Obama administration. However, this new plan that was announced at Northern Virginia Community College would support community college based training to meet the needs of employers in "high-growth sectors." The fund would support paid internships for low-income community college students that would allow them to earn credit for work based learning and gain employment experience. Obviously, republicans were skeptical of the president's new proposals in his budget. The chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, John Kline, Republican of Minnesota, said he was skeptical because the president is retreating from the proposal that he announced less than a month ago in his State of Union address.
Conclusion
Under the Community College to Career Fund, states would be able to seek out money to improve the skills of employers' work force. It would provide support for regional or national industry sectors to identify their needs to develop solutions, such as the training of new technologies and standardization of industry certifications. This way, industry employers can hire work force from such students from community colleges, that would translate into their career pathway.
Current Event Posting #1
Topic: Education
Title of article: Money Urged For Colleges to Perform Job Training
Author: Tamar Lewin
Publication Name: The New York Times
Date of Publication: February 13, 2012
Length: 425 words
Main Ideas:
Obama has proposed an $8 billion "Community College to Career Fund" in order to train two million workers for well paying jobs in high-demand industries. The fund would need to be approved by Congress and administered by the Departments of Labor and Education. The goal of this bill is to reinforce partnerships between community colleges and businesses to train workers in different career areas, such as health care, transportation, and advanced manufacturing. In 2009, community colleges only received $2 billion for job training from the Obama administration. However, this new plan that was announced at Northern Virginia Community College would support community college based training to meet the needs of employers in "high-growth sectors." The fund would support paid internships for low-income community college students that would allow them to earn credit for work based learning and gain employment experience. Obviously, republicans were skeptical of the president's new proposals in his budget. The chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, John Kline, Republican of Minnesota, said he was skeptical because the president is retreating from the proposal that he announced less than a month ago in his State of Union address.
Conclusion
Under the Community College to Career Fund, states would be able to seek out money to improve the skills of employers' work force. It would provide support for regional or national industry sectors to identify their needs to develop solutions, such as the training of new technologies and standardization of industry certifications. This way, industry employers can hire work force from such students from community colleges, that would translate into their career pathway.
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