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Bill centralizes statewide education-workforce planning under governor's office, codifies apprenticeships
Summary
Lawmakers advanced a package that renames GOSA to the Governor's Office of Education and Workforce Strategy, codifies unified WIOA and Perkins planning, designates the Technical College System as the state apprenticeship agency, and requires a statewide career navigator and coordinated reporting; business and CTE groups supported the measure.
Representative Gamble presented House Bill 1302 (LC492730ECS) as the final piece of the governor's "top state for talent" workforce package, and introduced Alex Husky, the governor's education policy adviser, to walk the committee through the bill's provisions. Husky said the bill redesignates the Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) as the Governor's Office of Education and Workforce Strategy and assigns it a coordinating role to bring together the Department of Labor, Technical College System, university system and Department of Education around a unified workforce plan.
"This legislation does this by designating the governor's Office of Student Achievement, GOSA, as the coordinator, not the doer, but just…
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