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Article: Bush calls for increased support for community colleges to help workers.(George w. Bush)(Brief Article)
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- Report on Literacy Programs
- Article date:
- March 17, 2005
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President Bush, pressing for more flexibility in job-training programs, this month said the federal government needs to support community colleges to help meet the needs of modern-day workers.
"We must never lose sight of the need to have an education system ... that's capable of keeping this country competitive by adjusting to the workplace as it really is," he said during a March 2 speech at Anne Arundel Community College. "I have come to herald success."
Bush has proposed doubling the number of Americans who get job-training from the government as a way to restore lost jobs. He aims to do that in part by consolidating federal job-training programs and ...