Newsom launches CA plan for career education

From Adam EchelmanCalmness

This story was originally published by CalmattersS Register about their ballots.

California is facing income inequality, its jobs are increasingly automated, and the degree of universities of its countries is no longer the asset they have ever been.

Governor Gavin Newsom has a plan for all this. Today at a press conference in Modesto, more than a year and a half after he first announced this initiative, he released Full Master Plan for Career EducationDetermination of a new course for state training and education programs.

“It’s pride,” he said. “It’s long overdue.”

However, some aspects of the plan will need approval by the legislature and it is unclear whether this will happen. The legislators and the office of the legislative analyzer criticize the governor’s new proposals such as “unproven” and “unclear”.

The plan emphasizes current efforts, such as the new state education data system, its latest financial assistance reforms and expansion of training based on colleges in Community, known as Education based on competenceS This data system is behind the graphand financial assistance reforms arose only after Calmatters wrote about the ruler’s failure Apply them. Seven Colleges in the Community move on with education based on competence according to the wishes of the governor-but in one school, Madera Community College, The reforms have stagnated Due to the opposition of the faculty.

Governor’s career plan also includes three new budget offers for this year, which can cost taxpayers over $ 105 million if accepted:

• Digital Career Passport, which will serve as a new type of resumption for students and workers
• More money for colleges in the Community to be able to offer a loan at the college for the work experience of students, a process known as a “pre -training loan”
• A new state body that will unite the leaders of education and the workforce to create “goals across the country” and to help coordinate the distribution of state and federal grants

All these budget proposals require the approval of the legislature, including a member of the Assembly Al MuratsuchiTorrance Democrat and President of the Assembly Education Committee. At today’s press conference, Muratsuchi helped present Newsom and stood behind him, listening carefully to the bigger part of the morning.

“I am not familiar with any criticism,” Newsom told a press conference in response to a question about the fears of the legislature. He then thanked Muratsuchi for coming to the event. “He is a great champion of this broader effort.”

In an interview yesterday, Muratsuchi said he evaluated the governor to prioritize career technical education, but he said that the governor’s plan “lacks the opportunity for significant reform”, including the possibility of optimizing state funding.

What is a “career passport”?

The governor’s plan puts the practices for hiring in the foreground. “While many employers are interested in evaluating both academic powers and skills won outside the classroom, very few employers perceive this approach,” the plan wrote. “A barrier is the lack of access to validated information that will help them evaluate candidates based on their skills.”

Enter Career Passport: An online tool that allows workers to present their academic transcripts and their professional skills in a format that is checked regardless of universities and employers.

“When I enter to create my LinkedIn profile, I can write whatever I want for myself,” says Sharon Le, CEO at Jobs’ Residence for the Future, a non -profit purpose of the workforce. “I can write that I have a PhD in Astrophysics from Harvard and you would not know.”

In order to be a teacher, for example, candidates must usually prove that they have a bachelor’s degree, certain types of professional experience and a state license. “All data is owned by different people,” LE said. “Scattered.”

Sometimes access to academic and professional records can take months – and these administrative delays become a delay in hiring, she said.

The state has already taken such an initiative to create certified, virtual records, she added: California mobile driver’s license Pilot, which currently allows licenses holders to fly from certain airports or buy alcohol using a virtual identifier. About 1.1 million people have already downloaded their licenses, according to Ronald Ongtoabok, an employee of public information in DMV. He said the project was funded by a one -time investment of $ 10 million during the 2021-22 fiscal year.

In terms of costs, Leu said he did not think “the educational project will be more than that.”

In its plan, Newsom wants $ 50 million for a digital career passport.

The legislative analyzer service writes that the governor’s proposal does not deal with how career passports will be better than using a summary and social network websites, such as LinkedIn. Thehe “The proposed approach is largely unproven,“The service writes …” it is also difficult to assess whether the proposed level of funding is reasonable for the proposal, as the administration did not explain how it came to an estimate of $ 50 million. ”

At the press conference, Newsom pointed out the efforts in Alabama, which unfolded A similar career passport. Alabama’s career passport took about seven years, Leo said, and started in 2023.

“Deterrent to work together”

While the legislature and the governor may disagree with the decision, they agree to the problem: job training programs in the state have no coordination. They are “Balkanized”, says Muratsuchi many times. In this confused system, some people, such as first -generation students and English -language students, often fights to understand which job training programs are suitable for them or how to qualify, according to plan.

NEWSOM offers the use of $ 5 million dollars to create a new coordinating body that will bring together college and K-12 leaders, as well as people from the State Work Agency. The body will use the data market data to bring programs with the search and “coordinate the implementation of specific federal and state programs,” the plan said.

“All data is owned by different people. It’s scattered.”

Sharon Le, Executive Director of Residence for the Future

Stewart Knox, the secretary of the California Labor and Working Agency, said part of this coordinating work is already underway locally. The state allocated $ 250 million In 2021, to help the K-12 areas, local colleges and job training programs work together. This money has created programs such as K-16 on SacramentoS

In an interview, Muratsuchi said he wanted the country’s career plan to go further and optimize the various grants that fund career training. In this model, different agencies-as a college in the Community, the K-12 schools, the schools for adults and the work centers-stimulate to apply for their own grants, effectively compete against each otherS State funding provides a “deterrent means of working together,” he said.

The legislative analyzer service has its criticism of the governor’s coordinating authority, according to a summary of its remarks in a recent Hearing program: “It is unclear whether the lack of existing coordination is the result of the lack of a place for such coordination or due to the differences in the goals between different work forces and educational agencies.”

The government operating agency, a state agency focused on innovation, will eventually accommodate the coordinating authority if the legislature decides to fund it. During the hearing, Justin Howard, the agency’s deputy secretary, noted that the coordination body will lack the authority to make most changes he recommends.

Senator Roger NiloA Republican of Rosawil offered his concern during the hearing. “This governor has remained less than two years in his term,” Nilo said. “We are taking a significant organizational initiative without knowing what the next governor will think about it.”

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