Education is the key to welfare reform New York has to put more than 60,000 more welfare recipients into jobs this year to meet federal deadlines. There are nearly 200,000 welfare recipients in education programs right now. Education is the key to welfare reform. Almost half of adults on welfare do not have a high school diploma. At least 20 percent of current welfare recipients face obstacles to employment because of a disability.
Education is part of welfare reform.
Report Cards are in the schools More than 4000 School Report Cards are in the mail to schools. Many school leaders have begun to talk to their communities about these results and their plans to improve performance. The Regents wanted to see that parents can get the Report Cards. We have provided computer disks in advance to the media where they have consented to a January 3 embargo. The major papers plan very extensive coverage, including publication of the data.