A state board has approved selling bonds to come up with $50 million to help community colleges ramp up their career and technical training.
We have more from The Michigan Public Radio Network’s Rick Pluta.
18 community colleges qualified for the money to buy equipment and technology. Governor Rick Snyder has made career tech training a high priority. He says that’s because employers are looking for skilled workers, and most states have fallen behind in meeting the demand.
“So we’re going to keep growing in the skilled trades. We’re going to be Number One,” he says.
Snyder says a skilled workforce will attract new employers, which makes the bond sale a bargain for taxpayers.