Bush is proposing new requirements for vocational training and for science and math education in the hopes that more rigorous schooling will help Americans attain the skills needed for the jobs of the 21st century. Bush's plan includes spending $1 billion to revamp the major federal vocational education program and creating a $100-million private-public partnership to provide $5,000 grants to about 20,000 low-income students to study math and science.
See "Bush Links More Rigorous Schooling to Getting Jobs", Edwin Chen and Erika Hayasaki, Los Angeles Times, April 6, 2004