You'd have to look at the money being spent on workforce development statewide and all of the min-bureaucracies feeding off of it. These are all components of School to Work, yet they can work together as well as independently. One example recently was in my 7th grade daughter's World Cultures class. I was preparing her for a test coming up. She pointed to a region in Russia.
Some classrooms have VERY little instruction going on.
My father was a vo-tech teacher and skills training is every bit as needed, perhaps MORE so now than ever. Perhaps that is why our state still sits rather LOW nationallly in its education system. I have begged our Governor for the last three years to move us away from STW style systemic restructuring, yet it continues because NOW that the labor industry has it grip on the school systems AND the funds, and we are facing an uphill battle.