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For what it's worth, I know that the local auto industry in Greenville SC has partnered with the local educational institutions, to include Clemson and Greeville Tech (for example, the Clemson University Center for Automotive Research).

...and it has, from what I understand, worked very well for the benefit of the graduates as well as the benefit of local industry.

So I personally think it is very smart to have this type of partnership (better to graduate an automotive engineer who can get a useful job than a "woman's studies" major who will only be able to be a rabble rouser, an academic, or some other form of malcontent)

But...this did not require any Federal government involvement...nor did it require Federal government funding.

So Obama will try to destroy any remaining useful educational infrastructure to make sure that people are trained to do what he wants them to do. Way to take a good idea and screw it up Barry.

Mark, you have hit the nail on the head. Partnerships between schools and businesses to meet real needs is a very good idea. Government interference in this is a very, very bad idea.

What will probably happen, in reality, is that "needs" will be created to take advantage of the federal $$ being offered. This really won't help anybody much, in the long run.

I don't think there is any area of life that the Obamas don't think they know more about than the rest of us. It would not shock me to soon be reading "Michelle Obama's advice for 'marital happiness'" if the euphemism is not too obscure.