John Kline actually said...

Strengthening career and technical education should be the next step in that important effort.

This is an important conversation to have now because an anemic economy has made good-paying jobs hard to come by.

It means equipping students with the skills they need for today's in demand jobs, not the skills that were needed in yesterday's workforce.

The partnership was reaffirmed in 2002 when Congress passed the Education Sciences Reform Act.