School-to-Work, 1990-1996

Text of speech by Robert A. Georgine, president, Building & Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, before the Eastern Seaboard Apprenticeship Conference, opposing school-to-work training as intellectually limiting for young students and poor substitute for apprenticeship training, with handwritten notations rebutting objections, June 10, 1996; The Builders, newsletter of the Building and Construction Trades Department, with column by Georgine opposing school-to-work training, July 1996; letter to AFT from Building and Construction Trades Department, noting closeness of respective positions, asking for presentation of full report to Building and Construction Trades Apprenticeship Committee, September 30, 1996; NYSUT minutes of meeting re planning grant; outline document re program; printed report by Educational Testing Service, "Focus: Beyond High School: The Transition to Work," 1990; "School-to-Work Transition: A Labor Perspective," by Paul F. Cole, Secretary-Treasurer, NYS AFL-CIO, with attached statement adopted by the AFL- CIO Executive Council, "AFL-CIO Guidelines on Skill Training and School-to-Work Transition in the 1990s and Beyond," May 4, 1993; U.S. General Accounting Office Testimony before the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, "Transition from School to Work: H.R. 2884 Addresses Components of Comprehensive Strategy," September 29, 1993; program, "On the Occasion of the Signing of the School to Work Opportunities Act," The White House, May 4, 1994, with attached booklet by U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Labor, "School to Work Opportunities: An Owner's Guide"; letter from AFT re National School-to-Work Technical Assistance Conference, with list of participants, September 17, 1993; New York State Commitment to school-to work system, with budget, signed by Gov. Cuomo, Education Commissioner Sobol, Commissioner of Labor Hudacs, and Commissioner of Economic Development Vince Tese, December 1993. See also NYS Advisory Council on Vocational Education