Bill Text: OH SR198 | 2011-2012 | 129th General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: To designate the month of March 2012 as "Skilled
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)
Status: (Passed) 2012-03-21 - Adopted [SR198 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2011-SR198-Comm_Sub.html
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Senators Widener, Beagle
Cosponsors:
Senators Lehner, Jones, Brown, Cafaro, Manning, Hughes, Seitz, Schaffer
| To designate the month of March 2012 as "Skilled | 1 |
| Workforce Recognition Month" in Ohio. | 2 |
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the 129th General | 3 |
| Assembly of the State of Ohio are pleased to designate the month | 4 |
| of March 2012 as "Skilled Workforce Recognition Month" in Ohio; | 5 |
| and | 6 |
| WHEREAS, Ohio has one of the most robust, comprehensive, and | 7 |
| successful career and technical education systems in the United | 8 |
| States of America. In fact, there are fifty joint vocational | 9 |
| career centers, forty-two comprehensive/compact districts and | 10 |
| forty-eight community schools in Ohio that offer career-focused | 11 |
| programs to high school students, adult students, or both; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, Adult and high school workforce education, part of | 13 |
| career and technical education in Ohio, plays a critical role in | 14 |
| educating a skilled workforce for today's jobs and tomorrow's | 15 |
| innovations. In Ohio, students of all ages, high school and adult, | 16 |
| have the opportunity to pursue their educational and career | 17 |
| passions through career-technical and adult education programs | 18 |
| offered in every region of the state. | 19 |
| WHEREAS, Career-technical education is a tool that adult | 20 |
| students utilize in order to move more quickly toward employment. | 21 |
| Career-technical education also prepares high school students for | 22 |
| college and careers and helps to fill the "skills gap" | 23 |
| contributing to placement in over 78,000 unfilled jobs in Ohio; | 24 |
| and | 25 |
| WHEREAS, Students who take advantage of educational | 26 |
| opportunities offered through their local, publicly funded | 27 |
| career-technical education programs increase their marketability | 28 |
| in the workforce; and | 29 |
| WHEREAS, Adult workforce education plays a critical role in | 30 |
| worker retraining. For example, adult workforce education has | 31 |
| trained over 89,000 adults throughout Ohio and 2010 graduation | 32 |
| rates for all high school career-technical students were | 33 |
| approximately ninety-nine per cent and the overall rate of | 34 |
| placement of high school workforce development education students | 35 |
| (college, career, or military) was approximately ninety per cent; | 36 |
| now therefore be it | 37 |
| RESOLVED, That we, the members of the Senate of the 129th | 38 |
| General Assembly of the State of Ohio, in adopting this | 39 |
| resolution, designate March 2012 as "Skilled Workforce Recognition | 40 |
| Month" in Ohio; and be it further | 41 |
| RESOLVED, That we, the members of the Senate of the 129th | 42 |
| General Assembly of the State of Ohio, in adopting this | 43 |
| resolution, recognize the importance of adult workforce education | 44 |
| to the advancement of Ohio's working adults and the strength and | 45 |
| vitality of Ohio's economic future; and be it further | 46 |
| RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the Senate transmit a duly | 47 |
| authenticated copy of this resolution to the President of the | 48 |
| Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the | 49 |
| Association for Career and Technical Education, and the news media | 50 |
| of Ohio. | 51 |
