February 25, 2005

House Panel Approves Job-Training Bill

By KELLY FIELD

Community colleges would receive $250-million in new federal job-training grants under a bill that the education committee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved last week.

The Job Training Improvement Act (H.R. 27) would put into effect President Bush's proposal to award grants to two-year institutions to work with businesses and local work-force-investment boards to provide job training in high-growth, high-skill fields with labor shortages. Half of that money would come from

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