The State DOE here in
Georgia is now rolling out the new fascist educational system enabled by 2014's
HB 766 that removed the provision that students would be paid for work based
learning and HB 400 that passed several years ago that put the decision about
tracking for college OR career in the hands of counselors or teacher mentors.
Favored companies will benefit. This is worse than slave labor because parents
pay all living expenses and taxpayers pay for teacher overseers. The Career
Pathways are copyrighted and owned by Achieve, who also owns Common Core.
Stakeholders trump parents' authority in this new setup.
Here is their press release:
Here is their press release:
"Georgia Department
of Education launches Educating Georgia’s Future Workforce
Initiative will increase
focus on career education and expand partnerships with business and industry
MEDIA CONTACT: Matt
Cardoza, GaDOE Communications Office, (404) 651-7358, mcardoza@gadoe.org. Follow DOE on Facebook,
Twitter, and Instagram
July 23, 2015 – The
Georgia Department of Education is launching Educating Georgia’s Future
Workforce, an initiative aimed at increasing the state’s focus on career
education and expanding partnerships with the business community, State School
Superintendent Richard Woods announced today.
“Georgia’s students must
leave our schools with skills that prepare them for higher education or to
immediately begin a career,” Superintendent Woods said. “It’s essential that we
offer the very best career education available, responsive to the changing
economic landscape and aligned to the needs of business and industry. This
initiative will bring all stakeholders to the table to strengthen our career,
technical, and agricultural education offerings and ensure students are being
prepared with skills that will serve them well in the workforce of the future.”
Some major components of
Educating Georgia’s Future Workforce include:
Participating in
listening sessions during business and industry visits by the State CTAE
Director and State Board Members to determine how we are doing in supplying
labor force needs.
Hosting twelve “Partners
Educating Georgia’s Future Workforce” regional meetings during fall 2015 with a
focus on economic development and Georgia’s Career, Technical, and Agricultural
Education (CTAE) offerings (These meetings will provide a chance for business
and community partners to learn more about CTAE in Georgia and develop new
partnerships with local school systems, thus positively impacting economic
development)
Identifying and making
available valuable economic development resources to both educators and
business partners with a Pathways to Prosperity toolkit
Developing a Superintendent’s Business and Industry Advisory Council
Developing a Superintendent’s Business and Industry Advisory Council
Offering an International
Skills Diploma Seal to graduates who demonstrate a strong interest in
international business and policy. Students earning the Seal have engaged in
courses and extra-curricular activities that foster global competencies.
Partnering with Harvard
University’s Pathways to Prosperity project to analyze the efficacy of
Georgia’s CTAE initiatives and offerings
“Educating Georgia’s
future workforce can only be done by forming partnerships with a variety of
stakeholders,” State CTAE Director Dr. Barbara Wall said. “These partnerships
are formed through relationships based on trust and communication, and we are
working to develop these relationships every day.”
In Georgia’s schools,
students take Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE) courses and,
in high school, choose a Career Pathway that equips them with skills and
industry certifications in a field of their choice. The Educating Georgia’s
Future Workforce initiative will strengthen the business and industry
partnerships that support CTAE, and further develop the skills students need to
enter the global workforce.
“Creating Career Pathways
was a major step to improving educational outcomes for Georgia students,” said
Chris Clark, Georgia Chamber president and CEO. “The launch of Educating
Georgia’s Future Workforce will advance this cause even further, preparing our
next generation of students with the skills employers need them to know for the
jobs of tomorrow.”
Source: Mary Kay Bacallao, Educational
Freedom Coalition
Comments
The hubris of this move is astounding. These
companies don’t have any jobs. We already have an entire generation that is
unemployed. This will turn into another very expensive failed “jobs program”
with no jobs to go to. These clowns will probably use projected needs based on
projected population numbers. It’s a
fantasy.
In Singapore, all students take a test at the
end of 6th grade. Those who pass the test continue in school; those
who fail the test enter “occupational school” to become maids, janitors and cab
drivers. Many who fail commit suicide, because they have “disgraced” their
family. That won’t work here.
Many students are “sleepers” who don’t care
about math or reading until they have a good reason to learn it. They may start
out as laborers on construction crews and as they assist the carpenters,
plumbers, HVAC Techs and electricians, or as they learn brick-work, flooring
and painting, some want to learn the math, so they can become a carpenter,
plumber, HVAC Tech or electrician, or owner of a brick-work, flooring or
painting company. This can happen after they are 30 or 40 years old. Some can learn it themselves and others
enroll in Trade Schools. This
opportunity for later education should not be denied, but it doesn’t need to be
free either.
The goal of education is to help students
discover their motivated abilities, so they can “do what they love”. If they do
this, they will succeed. We are not
programming robots here.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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