By State House News Service
Gov. Charlie Baker wants to more than quadruple annual funding for an initiative to train 20,000 new workers in high-demand trades, but House Democratic leaders this week showed little appetite for the expansion.
Baker proposed directing $16.9 million to the Career Technical Initiative program in his fiscal year 2022 budget, a boost that he and his deputies said would accelerate economic recovery and help close unemployment gaps exacerbated by the pandemic. But the House did not incorporate that funding in the budget it passed early Thursday morning.
During a Thursday tour of Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School, Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito and cabinet secretaries said greater investment in vocational and technical education opportunities is even more necessary now than when they launched the CTI program in January 2020 because of COVID-19 s impact.
BOSTON Gov. Charlie Baker wants to more than quadruple annual funding for an initiative to train 20,000 new workers in high-demand trades, but House Democratic leaders this week showed little appetite for the expansion.
Baker proposed directing $16.9 million to the Career Technical Initiative program in his fiscal year 2022 budget, a boost that he and his deputies said would accelerate economic recovery and help close unemployment gaps exacerbated by the pandemic.
But the House did not incorporate that funding in the budget it passed early Thursday morning.
During a Thursday tour of Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School in Danvers, Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito and cabinet secretaries, said greater investment in vocational and technical education opportunities is even more necessary now than when they launched the CTI program in January 2020 because of COVID-19 s impact.
Massachusetts to offer summer academies for K-12 students to support academic as well as social and emotion learning
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
After more than a year of schooling disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday announced that millions in funding is being provided for summer learning programs to support further academic as well as social and emotional learning opportunities.
The Baker administration on Friday morning announced more than $70 million in funding for school districts and community organizations to provide summer learning and recreational programs to students who were impacted by more than a year of remote and hybrid learning. The governor’s office said the programs will help children grow both academically and socially and are part of a multi-year effort.
After more than a year of non-traditional schooling that many teachers, parents and experts fear has set students back academically and socially, students across Massachusetts will have an opportunity this summer to take part in enhanced and expanded summer school and recreational programs that Gov. Charlie Baker said will aim to bring kids back up to speed.
With more than $70 million in funding, including at least $25 million of federal money, the Baker administration plans a full menu of academic and recreational programs that school districts could offer this summer in schools, through local community organizations, at community colleges and at recreation sites.