Youth Access to American Jobs Act of 2017
Official title: To establish a pilot program to promote public-private partnerships among apprenticeships or other job training programs, local educational agencies, and community colleges, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Youth Access to American Jobs Act of 2017
This bill requires the Department of Education to award grants to 10 eligible entities (partnerships among a local educational agency (LEA), a community college, and a state apprentice program or a joint-labor management training program) to carry out a program for students to:
- enroll in and complete science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, STEM-focused career and technical education courses, and other courses during grades 11 and 12 at a high school served by the LEA that prepares them for community college;
- enroll in a course of study related to a high-growth skills industry, an in-demand industry or occupation, the manufacturing field, or other vocational or career and technical education field at a community college upon graduating from such high school; and
- enroll, for a two-year period, in the eligible entity's state apprenticeship program or the joint-labor management training program upon receiving an associate's degree from such community college.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1050: Youth Access to American Jobs Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1050/
"H.R. 1050: Youth Access to American Jobs Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1050/.
H.R. 1050, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1050/.
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