#AUTOTURN 9.1 COST FREE#

#AUTOTURN 9.1 COST FREE#

Organizations and companies like Goodwill, Google and Amazon, to name a few, are offering free digital skills training to anyone who wants it. Many employers have recognized that a four-year degree shouldn't necessarily be a requirement for a good-paying job and are starting to implement a skills-focused hiring process. Much of the tuition is covered through Pell Grants, local employer grants and work-study programs. The Urban Scholars Program is three years, full-time, and fully online. Out of the box thinking at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas, is making higher education more affordable and more accessible and helping to level the playing field. The cost of education and upskilling is a barrier for many low-income jobseekers, at times limiting their options in the workforce. They're paid while on their way to tradesman status. Students get 144 hours of classroom training and 2,000 hours of hands-on training. The Shelby County School District created its first federally registered apprenticeship - an earn and learn model of training. In Tennessee, Memphis-based railroad equipment maker Atlantic Track worked with the local high school district to solve its labor shortage attributed to older workers retiring the company could find skilled workers. The workforce development initiative brings together three community colleges in the Hampton Roads region and focused on training welders and manufacturers and is creating a pipeline of highly-skill talent to the state's largest industrial employer. Virginia's Newport News Shipbuilding is one of the employers benefiting from the new Community College Workforce Cooperative. Over the past year, we've seen some promising examples of innovative training, upskilling, and education programs coming from employers, educators, nonprofits, and civic leaders.

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