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The State of Apprenticeship in the US: A Plan for Scale (White Paper)

This paper reviews the current state of apprenticeship in America and recommends how the US can bring apprenticeships to scale, covering 25-30% or more of an age cohort. The central recommendation is to fund organizations to persuade employers to adopt the apprenticeship model and hire apprentices. Funding would go to organizations/intermediaries, who operate between apprentices and employers, based on how many apprentices they stimulate employers to hire and train. This pay-for-performance model would work far more efficiently than the current practice of providing individual grants and contracts through the normal request for proposal system. We estimate that funding of $4 billion per year could create an additional 1 million apprentices. The other primary recommendations are: 1) to create a public-private entity to work with public and private employers to produce occupational skill standards; and 2) to use existing funding streams backed up by additional allocations to pay for most of the off-job training in a registered apprenticeship.

12 Nov 2024
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