Example is the Minnesota Job Skills Partnership. An employer-driven model insures that the funded programs will be responsive to business innovation. Make your IT recommendations in support of a larger workforce policy that is flexible and durable for the long term . Episodic approaches lead to a proliferation of obsolete programs. The only way that Minnesota can compete in the global economy is on the basis of a workforce that is continuously learning and substantially above average.
Federal policy needs to support state policy that contributes in both good and bad economic times.
We have to craft federal and state policy to address both economies. In times of change, it is the learners who will inherit the earth, while the learned will be beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.