Can Vocational Schools Compete - $12 Billion to Community Colleges Says President Obama

President Obama wants to get at least twelve billionthan community colleges.
into the hands of community colleges, and he'll probablyCommunity Colleges and their boards often have pet
get his way as most legislators would love to bring theprojects and spend money in places that may not
bacon home to their local areas for their colleges.exactly be in getting people re-trained to immediately
After all, re-training is the theme of most policy makersre-enter the workforce upon graduation. Vocational
when it comes to putting people back to work. ButSchools on the other hand must place their students, to
what about vocational schools, and private colleges,maintain their student base, and they must be
they too offer programs to put people to work inextremely agile to providing the market what they
various industries.need, when they need it.
Indeed, these private enterprises, and schools like theIt's hard to say if the Vocational Schools will be hurt by
University of Phoenix for instance is very proactive inthe huge investment in our community colleges, but, we
placing students and gearing their classes to what themust also realize that there are more students now
market place is looking for, and the direction that thethan ever as President Obama's economic strategy
economy is working. Where ever there are shortageshelps America shed jobs well past 12% unemployment.
of labor, those are the classes you will surely findPlease consider all this, as it is a very serious reality.
there. Private enterprises are much faster to adapt