Budget Amendment ID: FY2025-S4-681

EDU 681

College ReEnrollment & Workforce Skills (CREWS) Initiative

Ms. Lovely moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 7066-0000, by adding the following words:- ”; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended for the department of education to launch and manage a state-wide data-gathering program working with public institutions of higher learning to understand the number of Massachusetts residents with some college and no credential, compare and contrast data findings to findings in other states that have similar sized populations and develop a strategy for how the state can work to re enroll them into public higher education, apprenticeship and workforce training programs aligned with the needs of the Commonwealth”; and by striking out the figure “$4,695,011” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- “$4,945,011”.