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Mass. bill would create high-school trade partnerships, offer employer tax credit
Summary
Representative Mark Soter and Uxbridge educators urged the Joint Committee on Revenue to report favorably on H.3249, which would establish a high school trade partnership program linking public schools with private employers for credit-bearing vocational training and create an employer tax credit capped at $100,000 per employer per year.
Representative Mark Soter told the Joint Committee on Revenue that H.3249 aims "to stabilize and grow the Massachusetts economy by empowering our students and investing directly in our technical education infrastructure." He testified the bill would create a high school trade partnership program enabling public high schools to formalize training partnerships with private employers that award academic and vocational credit for classroom instruction and structured on-site work-based learning.
Dr. Michael Rubin, principal at Uxbridge…
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