More than half of our students leave school without the knowledge or skills required to find and hold a job.
Employers turn down five of every six young job applicants because of inadequate job skills.
By the year 2000. This law doesn't create a new program. It allows States and their partners to bring together efforts at education reform, worker preparation and economic development to create a system - A system to prepare youth for the high wage, high skill careers of today's and tomorrow's global economy. There is no single model. It establishes the infrastructure for a system that is based on existing models and efforts such as career academies, youth apprenticeship, Tech Prep, and cooperative education.