Education &
Job Training
Finding enough qualified workers is a major challenge for many
Connecticut companies. Our economy's growing demand for skilled
employees is outpacing the state's ability to produce them. Connecticut
needs to increase the quality of its entire education and job-training
systems in order to ensure that all of our young people achieve
productive careers, employees can continually adapt to changing
technologies, and our state's economy can compete globally.
CBIA recommends making the following areas priorities
in the allocation of available resources:
Early education — Improve the coordination
of programs administered by various state agencies in order to direct
funding streams to help ensure that all students are ready to learn
when they begin school; and establish an assessment tool to determine
each child’s developmental stage prior to entering kindergarten.
Technical high schools — Provide support
for the technical high schools’ restructuring plan, which
includes focusing on higher standards, stronger entry requirements;
and students' math, science and literacy skills.
Apprenticeship job training — Upgrade the
skills of current employees and retrain displaced workers through
employer-driven programs such as the apprenticeship job-training
program.
College of Technology — Strengthen the
college's ability to coordinate technology programs in the community
colleges to ensure that they meet the workforce needs of employers.
Connecticut State Scholars — Develop strategies
to implement the Connecticut State Scholars program in additional
urban school districts to encourage more students to take higher-level
courses that prepare them effectively for post-secondary education
and employment and that reduce the need for remediation.
Charter schools — Strengthen the charter
schools’ ability to run effective programs that offer public-school
choice for students.
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