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Free community college in Virginia for in-demand industries

Jenna Zibton

October 03, 2022 |

Solutionaries |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Virginia

Virginia’s G3 grant program provides tuition assistance to community college students pursuing credentials in high-demand fields such as health care, information technology, early childhood education, and skilled trades. Since 2021, more than 11,000 students in the state’s community college system have received nearly $14.9 million in tuition support.

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At Fly Compton, the sky's not a limit. Neither is race.

Marlon L. Dwight

September 07, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Compton, California

The nonprofit Fly Compton Aeronautical Education Foundation provides affordable flying lessons for marginalized youth to help them get careers in the aviation industry.

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How a St. Louis church is teaching teens to fly. ‘It really changed everything for me.'

Erin Heffernan

September 04, 2022 |

St. Louis Post-Dispatch |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Chesterfield, Missouri

The six-week, all-expense-paid, Red Tail Cadet Program teaches high school students to fly and prepares them to pursue a pilot’s license or study aviation in college. The flight school gives students an opportunity they might otherwise be unable to afford with hopes of diversifying the industry.

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Technical and Vocational Training Lowering Unemployment Rate among the Youth in Rwanda

Jeanne Kandama

July 12, 2022 |

Mille Collines Infos |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Rwanda

With unemployment high among people under age 35, Rwanda is emphasizing technical and vocational education training to help better prepare graduates for the labor market. The country now has 456 technical and vocational education schools that offer programs ranging from tailoring to auto mechanics to computer systems technology, with graduates reporting that the training has helped them find jobs or start their own businesses.

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1 out of 5 Irving ISD students graduate with industry credentials. The district could be a peek into Fort Worth ISD's future.

Jacob Sanchez

July 05, 2022 |

Fort Worth Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Irving, Texas

In Texas' Irving Independent School District, roughly one in five students earn industry credentials and gain real-world experience through more than a dozen "career clusters" designed to help them enter the workforce after graduation. Administrators work with industry partners in the community to target in-demand jobs and continually update the courses to keep them relevant in an evolving professional landscape.

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The Future of Work Is Green Jobs in New York

Lissa Harris

March 31, 2022 |

The River |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Hudson, New York

Several organizations in the Hudson Valley provide workforce development training geared towards increasing the number of qualified workers who can go into the emerging green jobs sector. Ulster BOCES provides vocational programs for high school students that include on-the-job training and certificates relevant to the clean energy sector. NYSERDA’s clean-energy on-the-job training program provides training assistance and partial reimbursement for the wages of new hires.

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Prisoners hope that education can erase a stigma

Danielle Dreilinger

November 26, 2021 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cottonwood, Idaho

Idaho's nine prisons have more than 30 postsecondary educational programs geared to helping incarcerated people get hired in career-track, technical jobs after their release from prison. The prisons focus on jobs in demand and woo potential employers with tours of their well-equipped classrooms. They also focus on education that produces certifications that carry more weight in industry. Studies show those credentials produce better odds against people returning to prison. Such programs nationwide have suffered from inadequate funding, but more federal money is in the pipeline.

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Green Jobs Offer Ex-Offenders a Career Path after Prison

Ryan M. Moser

November 18, 2021 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

At Florida's Everglades Correctional Institution, incarcerated men teach a course offered through a college correspondence school that can lead to certification to work as a wastewater treatment plant operator, a well-paying green-industry job in high demand. An incarcerated journalist tells the story of how demanding lessons in chemistry, microbiology, and algebra prepare students for the state certification exam. Hundreds have taken the course and many have found jobs in the industry after prison, although many employers remain reluctant to hire people with felony records.

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Latest student-built tiny home, now merely small, rolls off to a permanent location in Bridgewater

Roberta Baker

August 26, 2021 |

The Laconia Daily Sun |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Laconia, New Hampshire

High school students from several schools got hands-on construction experience by building tiny homes that are then sold at under-market prices to people needing housing. The training is provided to the students at Huot Technical Education Center, with mentoring from volunteers from the building trades. Four houses have been built and delivered so far in the program, which was slowed but not stopped by pandemic restrictions.

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In a Mafia Stronghold, This Cooking School Is Stirring the Pot

Agostino Petroni

February 01, 2021 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Italy, Bianco, Calabria

Italy's first tuition-free cooking school gives unemployed young people in the economically challenged region of Calabria a career path – and a culturally resonant alternative to working for the region's organized crime syndicate, the 'Ndrangheta. The school, Uno Chef per Elena e Pietro, surrounds cooking instruction with an appreciation for food culture and farming. Besides the extortion, kidnappings, and murder that the Calabrian Mafia uses, it also launders money by infiltrating farming and the food business.

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