{"id":4516,"date":"2023-07-28T13:39:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T13:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2023-07-28T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T14:04:12","slug":"education-watch-youth-apprenticeships-at-school-legs-dig-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4516","title":{"rendered":"Education Watch \u2013 Youth Apprenticeships at School: Leg\u2019s Dig In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-youth-apprenticeships-at-school-legs-dig-in\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-youth-apprenticeships-at-school-legs-dig-in\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the Department of Workforce Development<\/strong>: \u201cWe are excited to see a record number of 15,937 registered apprentices earning while they\u2019re learning on the job, and we\u2019re going to keep making smart, strategic investments to help this program continue to succeed.\u201d Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/dwd.wisconsin.gov\/press\/2023\/230228-record-apprenticeship.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-4316\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Staff-Quinton-Klabon-150x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"Quinton Klabon\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Additional context from IRG Senior Research Director Quinton Klabon:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Youth apprenticeships get high school juniors and seniors valuable skills (and cash!) during school through hands-on experience. <a href=\"https:\/\/dwd.wisconsin.gov\/apprenticeship\/ya\/employers.htm\">Employers<\/a> get high-quality recruits and even <a href=\"https:\/\/vendornet.wi.gov\/Bid.aspx?Id=e57dd9cf-409a-ec11-813a-0050568c7f0f&amp;name=\">funding<\/a> to convert them to full apprentices.<\/li>\n<li>The zenith is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxcasco.k12.wi.us\/schools\/high-school\/counseling-department\/course-education-options\/lchs-youth-apprenticeship\">Luxemburg-Casco<\/a>, where 11th graders can take 4 semesters of apprenticeships and 12th graders can do 8!<\/li>\n<li>Thus, 32% of Kewaunee County upperclassmen are <a href=\"https:\/\/dwd.wisconsin.gov\/apprenticeship\/ya\/yoda.htm\">youth apprentices<\/a>! Manitowoc, Richland, Calumet, Lincoln, Door, Iowa, Clark, and Polk also are above 15%. Rock, Rusk, Taylor, Sheboygan, Waukesha, Vilas, Eau Claire, La Crosse, Kenosha, Winnebago, Dane, Langlade, Pierce, Florence, Vernon, Douglas, Marinette, Milwaukee, Burnett, and Menominee are all below 5%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-youth-apprenticeships-at-school-legs-dig-in\/ From the Department of Workforce Development: \u201cWe are excited&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":3382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4518,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}