Friday, May 09, 2003
In a smart move, Kentucky has established a Kentucky Employability Certificate. The state's Cabinet for Workforce Development and the community college system will provide individual assessments of reading, writing and math, among other skills. People who pass the assessment will be given a certificate that indicates they are "job ready". Others will be given a plan for where they need to improve.
This initiative handles a major problem we are confronting...too many high school drop outs, high school graduates, and GED recipients with weak work skills. Kentucky has taken a commmon sense approach, and it's one that EDPros can easily promote with their state workforce boards.
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Kentucky introduces employability certificate
