MUSKEGON (WKZO AM/FM) — Governor Rick Snyder launched “The Marshall Plan for Talent” with a bill signing in Muskegon yesterday.
He is calling it his main priority, saying it will “revolutionize” the state’s K-12 education system.
Snyder carved $100-million out of a student loan fund and plans to spend some of it on scholarships, some of it on career counselors for high schools and the rest on equipment and teachers trained to steer students into careers in industry, technical fields and computers.
He says industties will need over 800-thousand workers over the next few years that are trained for jobs they will not be able to fill if the education system doesn’t adapt to the needs of employers.
