Here’s some potentially good news for Career Technical Education (CTE) programs, statewide. New legislation requires Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) to invest more of their funding from the Workforce Investment Act on job training.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Thursday (10/13/11) that requires local Workforce Investment Boards to divert at least a quarter of the money for their job centers to programs that teach the jobless new skills for the changing economy. This includes Adult Education.
Thanks to one of our CTE Coordinators, Alfred Miller, all of our CTE classes are now referred to job training clients by the local WIB. Berkeley Adult School is on the Eligible Training Provider List (ETPL).
Federal WIA funds are delivered locally to Rubicon/One-Stop Berkeley and the Private Industry Council (PIC)/One-Stop in Oakland. For detailed information on SB 734 (DeSaulnier), click here. And for a recent article in the LA Times on this legislation, click here.
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