You have /5 articles left.
Sign up for a free account or log in.
Rep. Virginia Foxx, North Carolina Republican and chair of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, said Wednesday that Congress “will take steps to reauthorize” the Workforce Investment Act “in the coming months.” The legislation was enacted in 1998 to fund training programs for displaced workers and the unemployed, but it has not been formally renewed since. Many career and technical education advocates have pushed for significant changes to be made to the law when Congress considers it again. At a hearing entitled “Removing Inefficiencies in the Nation’s Job Training Programs,” Foxx said “there are still areas where overlapping programs or services could be further consolidated and improved.” In March, a Government Accountability Office report “identified 47 separate job training programs administered by 9 federal agencies” and that 44 of those 47 programs “overlap with at least one other program.”
