On Monday, April 25, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, announced the White House's new investment of $100 million to power the America's Promise Job-Driven Training grants (America's Promise Grants). This new competitive grant program will provide funds to create and expand partnerships between employers and community colleges or other community-based job training organizations, in hopes of providing more unemployed or underemployed Americans tuition-free education that will prepare them for high-skill, high-demand careers. The initiative is slated to begin this summer, and will be administered by the U.S. Department of Labor using funds from the H-1B visa program.
The grants, according the White House's press release on the initiative, are intended to assist employers and job training programs to create work-based learning, internship and paid work experience programs. They will be available to begin new partnerships as well as to bring existing ones to greater scale.
This new program joins several others in the White House's portfolio on "upskilling," its effort to prepare more low-skilled or underemployed individuals for career success, including efforts around registered apprenticeship and higher education affordability. The America's Promise Grant program is an extension of the America's College Promise initiative that President Obama announced during his 2015 State of the Union address (often referred to as free community college), which has spurred more than $70 million in new investments to cover the cost of tuition for students through public private partnerships.
ACTE will monitor and share additional details on the program as they become available, including the grant’s application timeline and process.
Any latest news about this program?
Posted by: William | 08/31/2016 at 10:38 PM
How far this has gone now?
Posted by: Tony | 10/03/2016 at 12:34 PM