New CTE Legislation to Address Critical Workforce Development Gaps

The new House bills will address key concerns from manufacturers to improve both awareness and training for available manufacturing career paths, including:

• Greater student and parent skilled trade program awareness
• Greater student career exploration
• Real world manufacturing experience for educators
• Boosting CTE instructor recruitment efforts and easing unnecessary restrictions

Watch for next week’s MFG Voice for a deeper dive on the legislation as well as bill numbers. For more information on MMA’s efforts to increase skilled trades training in Michigan, contact Delaney McKinley, MMA senior director of government affairs and membership.

This article was published in the 10/17/17 edition of MFG Voice.

Contact Delaney McKinley

Senior Director of Government Affairs and Membership
Call 517-487-8530
E-mail mckinley@mimfg.org