Improving long-term outcomes requires a new approach that links all these systems with a unified vision where school and training systems lead to employment in good jobs.
This issue brief recommends that federal laws take a unified approach to build pathways to better jobs.
Specifically, Congress should:
• Align the reauthorization schedule with federal education and workforce development laws without creating legislative gridlock.
• Create a common set of rules and practices around defining quality.
• Create parameters for job quality that are included in federal education and workforce development laws.
• Align key legislative elements of federal education and workforce development laws with good jobs.
• Require states to implement federal education and workforce development laws collaboratively across the education and workforce training systems.