Nearly $500 million in federal job retraining grants will help community colleges work with employers to develop new programs in advanced manufacturing, transportation, health care, STEM occupations and other fields.
Here’s the list of recipients announced this week by the Labor Department.
Community colleges in 10 states were shut out. No colleges in Connecticut, Louisiana, Nevada and New Mexico received a grant. “Florida, a presidential battleground state with several high-profile community colleges, only received a portion of a shared grant, as did Indiana and Iowa,” reports Inside Higher Ed.
The $500 million is supposed to be the first installment of four, but community college advocates say they’ll have to fight hard to protect the promised $1.5 billion from congressional budget cutters.
