School-to-Work: AFT School-to-Work Transition Task Force Meeting, 1994

February 7, 1994. List of task force members; copy of article from Education Week re attempts to overhaul school-to-work programs nationally, poor job prospects of high school graduates, February 26; AFT draft resolution on the transition from school to work; published notice of School-to-Work Opportunities State Implementation Grants Program in Federal Register, February 3, 1994; text of legislation and summary, School to Work Opportunities Act; outline of grants to be made under the act; position paper by Jobs for the Future, "Why the School-to-Work Opportunities Act Should Require Paid Work"; Testimony of Paul Cole, vice president, AFT, AFL-CIO, before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity, October 14, 1993; generic op-ed text for submission to local newspapers, endorsing School-to-Work Act, with cover memo to task force members from AFT Public Affairs, January 28; Washington Post opinion piece by Robert Kuttner, "Skills Don't Create Jobs," re need for strategies to create jobs and raise wages, noting that skills have been rising but wages declining, asserting that higher skills make job and wage situation worse, February 7