July 16, 2009

Job Training Is Stressed at Education Dept., State Leaders Are Told

By Sara Hebel

Santa Fe, N.M.

Martha J. Kanter, the U.S. under secretary of education, told state higher-education leaders gathered here on Wednesday for their annual meeting that she would make improving job training a priority.

She said she wanted to better align federal education and labor programs that often operate in isolation from one another even though they have complementary goals of preparing people for the work force.

“I really want to marry work and education in a more

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