Recent News
College-for-all mindset degrades education system
May 10, 2012
While experts debate the best curriculum for students, career and technical education (CTE) classes have been removed from our schools due to budget cuts and a focus on college preparatory curricula. Read more…
Manufacturing jobs exist, but too few have skills
May 9, 2012
Many employers are having trouble filling existing open positions, and even more job openings are projected in the next few years as older workers retire. Statistics show that the number of potential employees qualified for manufacturing jobs is not growing fast enough to fill the need. Read more…
New Jobs Slow; Unemployment Drops as Work Force Shrinks
May 4, 2012
The unemployment rate, which is based on a separate survey of American households, ticked down to 8.1 percent in April, from 8.2 percent. That may sound like good news, but the decline was not because more unemployed workers were hired; it was entirely because 342,000 workers dropped out of the labor force. Read more…
Job Training for Older Workers
May 1, 2012
The Lane Workforce Partnership, a business-led workforce development organization, is coordinating a 50+ job training program in partnership with Goodwill Industries and Lane Community College (LCC). AARP Foundation provided a $200,000 grant to finance the program’s first two years. Read more …
21 Schools Win 21st Century Job Education Grants
April 30, 2012
Labor and Industries Commissioner Brad Avakian and State
Schools Superintendent Susan Castillo today announced the first recipients of
grant awards to re-establish hands-on learning and job skills training programs
in Oregon middle and high schools. Churchill High School and Willamette
High School are among the high schools receiving a 21st Century Job
Education grant. Churchill High School has been awarded a $424,766 grant
and Willamette High School a $161,355. Read more …
