DeVos: Apprenticeships, Vocational Education are Top Trump Priority

[mystery-ak]

DeVos: Apprenticeships, Vocational Education are Top Trump Priority
Task force meeting explores ways to make alternative education more successful



Betsy DeVos / Getty

BY: Charles Fain Lehman   
February 6, 2018 4:10 pm

Expanding apprenticeship and vocational education are a priority of the Trump administration, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said Tuesday in a meeting of the Department of Labor's specially chartered Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion.

"Apprenticeship expansion is a priority for President Trump, as he demonstrated by establishing the task force last summer," DeVos said. "In the State of the Union address, he called on everyone, not just the Department of Education, or Labor, or Congress, or Washington, everyone to invest in workforce development, and job training, and great vocational schools so our students and future workers can learn a craft and realize their full potential."

The task force was chartered in accordance with a June executive order, and is now jointly chaired by DeVos, Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. Other members represent a diverse group of educational, labor and industry interests, focused around the question of how to diversify skills education in the U.S. economy.

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[Bigun]

EXCELLENT!  They should be!

[Neverdul]

EXCELLENT!  They should be!

I am all for apprenticeships and vo-tech but the priorities in my book:

Eliminate Common Core and eliminate federal dollars being tied to federal mandates.

Eliminate all federal interference in education period.

Allow states to establish educational standards perhaps in partnership with other states and or with private enterprise, and encourage states to give more autonomy to local school districts and eliminate the need for the constant testing (and teaching to the tests) and let teachers teach.

Encourage school choice and give parents tax breaks for private, parochial and qualified home schooling.

Then eliminate the DOE, shut the doors and replace with a voluntary and unpaid rotating commission made up of teachers (public, private and non-union), parents, perhaps even some exceptional children and private industries that includes representatives from various industries including the areas of STEM and Vo-Tech that meets a couple of times a year and publishes recommendations, not mandates, that schools may decide to follow.

[Bigun]

I am all for apprenticeships and vo-tech but the priorities in my book:

Eliminate Common Core and eliminate federal dollars being tied to federal mandates.

Eliminate all federal interference in education period.

Allow states to establish educational standards perhaps in partnership with other states and or with private enterprise, and encourage states to give more autonomy to local school districts and eliminate the need for the constant testing (and teaching to the tests) and let teachers teach.

Encourage school choice and give parents tax breaks for private, parochial and qualified home schooling.

Then eliminate the DOE, shut the doors and replace with a voluntary and unpaid rotating commission made up of teachers (public, private and non-union), parents, perhaps even some exceptional children and private industries that includes representatives from various industries including the areas of STEM and Vo-Tech that meets a couple of times a year and publishes recommendations, not mandates, that schools may decide to follow.

You'll get no arguments from me on any of that my dear!

[roamer_1]

EXCELLENT!  They should be!

YEP this is good, if it offers tax and wage breaks for hiring apprentices. And if the apprentice is a good lad, and the company wants to send him on for vo-tech training, The company should pay, and that cost should be wholly deductible.

If it is just an expansion of the college system, where Uncle Nanny subsidizes colleges to offer crap degrees in crap subjects, and then puts a ring in the student's nose for nearly the rest of his life in the form of a loan that must be paid back regardless of whether the education actually got you a job...

If it is more of that, it is just as worthless.