Washington, Sept. 23 -- Congressman Joe Courtney issued the following press release:
This week, on Eyewitness News Extra, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) celebrated the revitalization of skills training in eastern Connecticut:
"You really see, I think, a very real shift that's happening in curriculums in high schools, not just trade schools, but also comprehensive high schools, the regular high schools that are now installing welding labs, plasma tables, all the equipment that really give a sizable chunk of kids and opportunity to acquire a skill that, frankly, we just sort of stopped doing for a really long time," Courtney said.
Yesterday, to mark 10 years of the Manufacturing Pipeline Initiative (MPI), the Eastern Connecticut Workfor...