OLYMPIA \u2014 Workers in Washington state would benefit from new apprenticeship programs in growing fields, reinvigorated support for existing apprenticeships, and significantly increased state funding for apprentices at public colleges, under two bills passed recently by the Senate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe \u2018earn-while-you-learn\u2019 approach, with both classroom instruction and supervised on-the-job training, makes apprenticeships accessible to many\u2014especially women and people of color\u2014who can\u2019t take time off work or afford to go to a traditional college or university,\u201d said Sen. Karen Keiser (D-Des Moines), chair of the Senate Labor, Commerce & Tribal Affairs Committee. \u201cWe can build a more diverse and expanded apprenticeship system that opens the door to a successful future for so many more Washingtonians.\u201d<\/p>\n
Currently these benefits are out of reach for many workers and employers because several high-growth fields lack existing or sufficient apprenticeships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OLYMPIA \u2014 Workers in Washington state would benefit from new apprenticeship programs in growing fields, reinvigorated support for existing apprenticeships, and significantly increased state funding for apprentices at public colleges, under two bills passed recently by the Senate. \u201cThe \u2018earn-while-you-learn\u2019 approach, with both classroom instruction and supervised on-the-job training, makes apprenticeships accessible to many\u2014especially women and people of color\u2014who can\u2019t take time off work or afford to go to a traditional college or university,\u201d said Sen. Karen Keiser (D-Des Moines), chair of the Senate Labor, Commerce & Tribal Affairs Committee. \u201cWe can build a more diverse and expanded apprenticeship system…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"\n