Word: apprenticeship
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...higher education programs: He wants guaranteed college loans for Americans willing to repay the money or provide a public service. In Arkansas, lower-and middle-class high school students with passing grades who stay out of trouble are guaranteed $1000 college scholarships under a 1991 law. He also wants apprenticeship programs for Americans not going to college...
Clinton has expanded and restructured vocational education in the state to include generous apprenticeship and technical training programs which have kept more non-college bound students in high school. And he has not quarantined vo-tech programs in urban areas but has kept them integrated into larger high schools...
...although Tsongas' domestic economic plan would surely help business, it lacks the apprenticeship programs, loans to low-income entrepreneurs and expanded earned income tax credits that would make it easier for America's poor to attain resources lost in the last decade--or never even created...
...began my apprenticeship when I was in fifth grade. Dr. Fitzsimmons continued to teach me about bees and prairie plants until mid-high school, when I had to abandon beekeeping for academic pursuits. In ninth grade, I struck up a friendship with Regina, the youngest of his nine children. We were united in adversity against the hypocrisies of our respective schools, both singlesex pre schools...
EDUCATION AND JOBS. While Tsongas worries about the cost of capital, Clinton's focus is on human resources. His coherent, systematic approach to improving education at all levels revolves around apprenticeship programs for those who choose not to attend college and a universal loan program that would guarantee a college education to all who want one, in return for an extended repayment schedule or a period of national service. Clinton has also developed a worker- retraining plan that would force companies to spend equally for this purpose. Current worker-training schemes are virtually useless, he notes correctly. "Roughly...