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Clinton says he would also create apprenticeship programs for high school graduates not planning to attend college as well as adult education programs for those without high school diplomats...
Clinton has made himself the training and education candidate. He would create a national apprenticeship program for high school students who are not college-bound and would require companies to invest the equivalent of 1.5% of their payroll to train all workers. He also wants preschool for every needy child, national examinations for elementary and secondary students, and guaranteed tuition for college students, who would repay it in cash or with national service. To help finance all this, Clinton would pare $100 billion from the defense budget over the next five years -- twice what the Bush Administration proposes...
...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...