Iowa employers have said for years that their biggest challenge is finding enough skilled and qualified workers to fill immediate jobs openings.
The Legislature has responded with a bipartisan plan to make Iowa more Future Ready. HF 2458 won unanimous approval in the House and Senate, and was signed into law this week.
It aims for 70 percent of Iowa workers to have education or training beyond high school by 2025. That means another 127,700 Iowans need to earn post-secondary degrees or other credentials in advanced manufacturing, computer science, finance, health care and other high-demand fields.
Becoming Future Ready is all about helping Iowans gain momentum on their path to a successful career, and Iowa’s education system is adapting. Two examples include:
· Offering more Career and Technical Education. Students with career and technical training have higher rates of employment and higher earnings than other students, according to a report on community college education outcomes.
· Ensuring students are awarded the credentials they’ve earned. Community college students who transfer to state universities before earning a degree or certificate will have an easier time getting a credential retroactively. Students simply have their university transcripts sent back to their community colleges, which determine if they’ve met requirements for degrees or other credentials. This is expected to boost college completion rates and the number of community college credentials awarded.
Now, the Legislature must increase its investment in job training and education at all levels so that the resources are available to meet the needs of Iowans, businesses and communities becoming Future Ready.
State colleges are mostly liberal snowflake overpriced -over estimated bye products of the federal government – a good trade school or business college or HEY maybe on the job training for what ever good jobs left that have not been filled by foreign workers through the democrat visa programs OR the illegals that they bus all over American at the request of large corporations and the agriculture (meat packing) kingpins – natural born young people are being screwed over by these horrible immigration polices = 350,000 chinese nationals are here on a visa programs as we speak and millions more foreign bodies are here working WITH EXPIRED visas that are robbing our young graduates of their right to a job – people on visas work for less as do the illegal immigrants (11 Million of them) also as we speak. The people that sponsor this bull crap are Anti American democrats – bottom feeders at best.
It is so sad how Trump supporters can take anything, I mean anything, and turn it into a slam on the Democrats. I get it, The dems need to come back to reality but this country will never move forward with that attitude.
Some of you trump supporters sure are a insecure bunch, maybe deep down inside you really DO know the truth about your guy Donald.
As usual the have the cart before the horse. We don’t need any more worthless college degrees, we need job training and that does not need to be done at a expensive college.
The Joker is back !! Send up the Bat Signal !!