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Show As legislators we have long expressed a verbal support for the very important phase of our educational system devoted to worker training it is now time that we meet this com-' mitment witn action and dollars. It is the best investment we can make. In summary, as legislators we should realize the following points: The technical world we live in requires special training to make workers productive. To eliminate unemployment we must have people trained for the jobs that are available. It is important to keep the state and local fiscal support high in J comparison to the federal dollars so that pt "gram location and content can be controlled on a state and local basis. One of the vital responsibilities of education is to prepare people for jobs. We are going to have to retain adults to keep pace with ever changing job demands. Funds provided for vocational education will pay dividends in the future. Vocational education is more expensive than other education programs because of small classes and expensive equipment To get the true story we need to talk to epople actually involved in vocational education programs. s |