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The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) has released our latest policy brief, Principles for a High-Quality Pre-Apprenticeship: A Model to Advance Equity. Guided by an equity focus, this brief contains framing, analysis, and recommendations for the development of high-quality pre-apprenticeship programs—strategies that can help to bolster the outcomes for individuals and communities that have been traditionally left out of apprenticeships.
CLASP recognizes the incredible economic and workforce potential that high-quality pre-apprenticeships and Registered Apprenticeships represent. However, these employment pathways must also benefit both communities that have been historically marginalized and people who have not traditionally participated in Registered Apprenticeships.
Our recommendations include input from advocates, partner organizations, policymakers, practitioners, representatives from labor and industry, and other key stakeholders. We examined :
- Program goals
- Integrating successful apprenticeship practices
- Program design, including equitable access, recruitment, and placement
- Compensation
- Regional planning
- Pathways to postsecondary education
As Congress, employers, states, the federal government, program sponsors, and other community stakeholders look to strengthen pre-apprenticeships, CLASP urges them to design and invest in high-quality pre-apprenticeship programs with these principles in mind.
We hope you find this brief helpful in your work. If you’d like to share it on social media, feel free to use one of these sample tweets:
Tweet 1:
What's a high-quality pre-apprenticeship?
-It ensures placement into a Registered Apprenticeship
-It provides compensation
-It benefits the historically marginalized
Read more in @CLASP_DC’s new brief "Principles for A High-Quality Pre-Apprenticeship" https://bit.ly/2Vvswfx
Tweet 2:
By 2017, 7.3 percent of US apprentices were women. Why were their wages much lower than men's?
They were more likely to be enrolled in lower-paying apprenticeships. Quality pre-apprenticeship programs should steer women towards high-paying occupations. https://bit.ly/2Vvswfx
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