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Document No. 070808
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
09/07/89
DATE:
NOON FRIDAY 09/08
ACION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AWARDS
SUBJECT:
(09/07 draft three)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
plune
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
PINKERTON
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston
by noon on Friday, 09/08, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
( (Grant) )
89 SEP 7 P6 03
September 7, 1989
Draft three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AWARDS
THE ROSE GARDEN
SEPTEMBER 11, 1989
11:15 A.M.
((Acknowledgements)
There's an old saying: The more things change, the more
things stay the same. Well, today I'm going to talk about our
rapidly changing workforce, and the simple, proven ways America
is preparing for the future.
During the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, the government
made a strong commitment to what most people now consider a
current idea: vocational-technical education. By establishing
the land-grant colleges -- the Agricultural and Mechanical, or "A
& M" schools -- Lincoln ensured that Americans workers were on
the cutting edge of new technologies. Sound familiar? Since the
days of Lincoln, America has been concerned with competitiveness
in the world marketplace of technology.
Lately, there's been a bad rumor going around that the work
ethic is dead. It sure isn't -- not when so many of the best new
jobs in the Nation are going to Americans educated in vocational-
technical schools. Sounds to me like the work ethic is alive and
well.
And it's going to stay that way: Eighteen of the 20 fastest
growing occupations within the next decade require vocational-
technical education, and jobs for technicians will grow 38
percent by the year 2000 -- the fastest of any major occupational
group.
2
All across America, some 26,000 vocational-technical
education institutions provide 16 million Americans with
marketable skills in over 150 occupations.
These students will be the high-tech computer programmers
and operators, equipment assemblers and communications
specialists who stand at the cutting edge of our economy. As we
rely more and more on automation in our industries, employers
will be looking for smart workers who can communicate and solve
problems, from monitoring production rates to repairing robots.
and we
These are people who are skilled on the production line and who
and craftsm all
know how to get things done one professor told Fortune
magazine they were the new "blue and white striped collar
workers" of tomorrow.
Let's look at one of the benefits of vo-tech education:
marketable graduates and lower unemployment. For example, one
study found that graduates of Ohio vocational education programs
earn 21 percent more money four years after graduation than high
school graduates without such training. And unemployment is
lower for vo-tech graduates than for those in the general work
force who are the same age and have the same number of years of
when
schooling. But even beyond the numbers -- if vo-tech education
the whole
can helpsyoung Americans get a better start in life, then it has
Country benefits
been an overwhelming success.
Here's another benefit: improved learning skills. Job
training and academics are not contradictory. Actually, many
people learn academic subjects better in the context of how to
use them on the job. Students in a vo-tech school taking a
3
"Principles of Technology" course will learn about thermal
resistance not from a lab experiment with beakers and test tubes,
but from working with the insulation in a house. Vo-tech schools
are leading the way in educational improvement and "applied
academics."
The partnerships that community colleges and vo-tech
institutes have formed with businesses to provide retraining and
up-to-date skills for their employees are essential. There are
now 23 million adults who receive re-training through vocational-
technical programs which allow them to get new or better jobs.
The reality of life-long learning has arrived.
career
carder
Building a worldclass workforce is a national priority.
opp.
Improving America's capacity to educate and train workers is
critical to the future of this country. That's why today we're
presenting to you the American Vocation Success Awards. You have
become American success stories through your involvement in
vocational-technical education. And you're building a better
America every day.
Each of you has truly lived the American Dream, and each one
of you deserves our congratulations and thanks for your work in
vocational-technical education. God bless you all. Thank you.
let's present these well deser awards to success
And now, we'll be presenting the American Vocation Success
Awards
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 11, 1989
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT AMERICAN SUCCESS AWARDS CEREMONY
The Rose Garden
11:07 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. I'm serious. Take off
your coats if you want to. I kind of look a little more formal here,
but -- thank you, Larry -- Secretary Cavazos, our able Secretary of
Education. It's a great pleasure to see you here, and I certainly
want to welcome Senator Kassebaum. I don't know what happened to
Orrin -- Senator Orrin Hatch, but I expect he'll make the dramatic
entrance any minute now. (Laughter.) But thank you so much for
coming.
My thanks to Michael Farley, Chairman of the National
Council on Vocational Education for all his hard work. And there's
an old saying: The more things change, the more things stay the
same. Well, today I'm going to talk about our rapidly-changing work
force and the simple, proven ways America is preparing for the
future.
You know, during the administration of Abraham Lincoln,
the government made a strong commitment to what most people now
consider a current idea: vocational-technical education. And by
etablishing the land-grant colleges -- the agricultural and
mechanical, or "A&M" schools -- Lincoln ensured that American workers
were on the cutting edge of the new technologies. Well, that sounds
familiar. And since the days of Lincoln, America has been concerned
with competitiveness in the world marketplace of technology.
Lately, there's a bad rumor going around that the work
ethic is dead. And I don't believe that's true -- not when so many
of the best new jobs in the nation are going to Americans educated in
vocational-technical schools. It sounds to me like the work ethic is
alive and well.
And it's going to stay that way. Eighteen of the 20
fastest-growing occupations within the next decade require
vocational-technical education and jobs for technicians will grow 38
percent by the year 2000 -- the fastest of any major occupational
group.
You know, there are dramatic changes in the nation's work
force -- changes that point to a brighter future for our young
people. Take, for example, the fact that our population is growing
much more slowly now that the baby boom is over -- the same time that
we're creating a record number of new jobs. The bottom line in the
year 2000 -- and this is a statistic that really is staggering -- in
the year 2000, every person who wants a job will have one if they
have the skills. And that's where you all come in.
All across America, some 26,000 vocational-technical
education institutions provide 16 million Americans with marketable
skills in over 150 occupations.
These students will be the high-tech computer programmers
and operators, equipment assemblers and communications specialists
who stand at the cutting edge of our economy. As we rely more and
more on automation in our industries, employers will be looking for
smart workers who can communicate and solve problems, from monitoring
MORE
- 2 -
production rates to repairing robots, and people who are skilled on
the production line and who know how to get things done -- and
craftsmen such as computer programers and electrical engineers, and
practical nurses who keep our economy going strong.
Let's look at some of the benefits of vo-tech education
-- marketable graduates and lower unemployment. For example, one
study found that graduates of Ohio vocational education programs earn
21 percent more money four years after graduation than high school
graduates without this training. And unemployment is lower for
vo-tech graduates than for those in the general work force who are
the same age and have the same number of years of schooling. But
even beyond the numbers -- when vo-tech education can help young
Americans get a better start in life, then the whole country
benefits.
And here's another benefit -- improved learning skills.
Job training and academics are not contradictory. Actually, many
people learn academic subjects better in the context of how to use
them on a job. Students in a vo-tech school taking a "Principles of
Technology" course will learn about thermal resistance -- not from a
lab experience with beakers and test tubes, but from working the
insulation in a house. Vo-tech schools are leading the way in
educational improvement and applied academics.
The partnerships that community colleges and vo-tech
institutes have formed with businesses to provide retraining and
skills for employees are essential. There are now 23 million adults
who receive retraining through vo-tech programs which allow them to
get new or better jobs. The reality of life-long learning has
arrived.
We call it "career ladder opportunities" -- the kind of
education that builds bridges between vocational education and higher
education. It's the kind of education that puts more and more
Americans on the ladder to success.
Building a world-class work force, then, must be a
national priority. Improving America's capacity to educate and train
workers is critical to the future of this country. And that's why
today we're presenting to you -- not all of you, some of you -- the
American Success Awards. You have become American success stories
through your involvement in vocational-technical education. And
you're building a better America every day.
Each of you has lived the American dream, and each one of
you deserves our congratulations and thanks for your work in
vocational-technical education. God bless you all and thank you all
for coming today.
And now, Mike, let's present these American Success
Awards. (Applause.)
END
11:12 A.M. EDT
From: sand Decamp
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Sept. 8,1989
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Speech Witer
WASHINGTON
OK
September 8, 1989
INFORMATION
A
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON cw
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FROM:
MARY KATE GRANT MKg
SUBJECT:
AMERICAN SUCCESS AWARDS CEREMONY
FOR VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION
I.
SUMMARY
Attached for your review are brief remarks for the
vocational-technical education awards ceremony, to be held on
Monday, September 11, at 11:15 a.m. in the Rose Garden.
II. DISCUSSION
You will be making brief remarks from cards (5-7 minutes) at
the awards ceremony, after which Mike Farley, the chairman of the
National Council for Vocational-Technical Education, will present
the awards.
The National Council serves at your appointment. It is
currently involved in a public awareness campaign to improve the
image of vo-tech education. The remarks stress the importance of
having a skilled workforce for a strong economy.
Please work in one specific sentince
about Future more jobs then
people (demographte change)
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418
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PAGE 03
( (Grant) )
September 7, 1989
Draft three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN SUCCESS AWARDS
THE ROSE GARDEN
SEPTEMBER 11, 1989
11:15 A.M.
((Acknowledgements))
There's an old saying: The more things change, the more
things stay the same. Well, today I'm going to talk about our
rapidly changing workforce, and the simple, proven ways America
is preparing for the future.
During the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, the government
made a strong commitment to what most people now consider a
current idea: vocational-technical education. By establishing
the land-grant colleges -- the Agricultural and Mechanical, or "A
& M" schools -- Lincoln ensured that Americans workers were on
the cutting edge of new technologies. Sound familiar? Since the
days of Lincoln, America has been concerned with competitiveness
in the world marketplace of technology.
Lately, there's been a bad rumor going around that the work
ethic is dead. It sure isn't -- not when so many of the best new
jobs in the Nation are going to Americans educated in vocational-
technical schools. Sounds to me like the work ethic is alive and
well.
And it's going to stay that way: Eighteen of the 20 fastest
growing occupations within the next decade require vocational-
technical education, and jobs for technicians will grow 38
percent by the year 2000 -- the fastest of any major occupational
group.
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you know, there are drametic changes
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000 W MAILFAX 3501T
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418
'90 9-10 10:28
PAGE 04
2
All across America, some 26,000 vocational-technical
education institutions provide 16 million Americans with
marketable skills in over 150 occupations.
These students will be the high-tech computer programmers
and operators, equipment assemblers and communications
specialists who stand at the cutting edge of our economy. As we
rely more and more on automation in our industries, employers
will be looking for smart workers who can communicate and solve
problems, from monitoring production rates to repairing robots.
People who are skilled on the production line and who know how to
get things done -- and craftsmen such as computer programers,
electrical engineers, and practical nurses who keep our economy
going strong.
Let's look at one of the benefits of vo-tech education:
marketable graduates and lower unemployment. For example, one
study found that graduates of Ohio vocational education programs
earn 21 percent more money four years after graduation than high
school graduates without such training. And unemployment is
lower for vo-tech graduates than for those in the general work
force who are the same age and have the same number of years of
schooling. But even beyond the numbers -- when vo-tech education
can help young Americans get a better start in life, then the
whole country benefits.
Here's another benefit: improved learning skills. Job
training and academics are not contradictory. Actually, many
people learn academic subjects better in the context of how to
use them on the job. Students in a vo-tech school taking a
000 W MAILFAX 3501T
VALUTEC
418
'90 9-10 10:28
PAGE 05
3
"Principles of Technology" course will learn about thermal
resistance not from a lab experiment with beakers and test tubes,
but from working with the insulation in a house. Vo-tech schools
are leading the way in educational improvement and "applied
academics."
The partnerships that community colleges and vo-tech
institutes have formed with businesses to provide retraining and
up-to-date skills for their employees are essential. There are
now 23 million adults who receive re-training through vocational-
technical programs which allow them to get new or better jobs.
The reality of life-long learning has arrived.
We call it "career ladder opportunities" -- the kind of
education that builds bridges between vocational education and
higher education. It's the kind of education that puts more and
more Americans on the ladder to success.
Building a worldclass workforce is a national priority.
Improving America's capacity to educate and train workers is
critical to the future of this country. That's why today we're
presenting to you the American Vocation Success Awards. You have
become American success stories through your involvement in
vocational-technical education. And you're building a better
America every day.
Each of you has truly lived the American Dream, and each one
of you deserves our congratulations and thanks for your work in
vocational-technical education. God bless you all. Thank you.
And now, let's present these awards to success
...
###
Document No. 070808
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM 89
SEP
09/07/89
NOON FRIDAY 09/08
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
22
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AWARDS
SUBJECT:
(09/07 draft three)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
PINKERTON
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston
by noon on Friday, 09/08, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
comments #2.
See
9/8/89 see page and insect atend. and Assistant Deputy James Ext. to
W. Cicconi
to the President
the Chief of Staff
2702
Anne - Education - 732-3010
( (Grant) )
39 SEP 7 P6: 03
September 7, 1989
Draft three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AWARDS
THE ROSE GARDEN
SEPTEMBER 11, 1989
11:15 A.M.
((Acknowledgements) )
There's an old saying: The more things change, the more
things stay the same. Well, today I'm going to talk about our
rapidly changing workforce, and the simple, proven ways America
is preparing for the future.
During the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, the government
made a strong commitment to what most people now consider a
current idea: vocational-technical education. By establishing
the land-grant colleges -- the Agricultural and Mechanical, or "A
& M" schools -- Lincoln ensured that Americans workers were on
the cutting edge of new technologies. Sound familiar? Since the
days of Lincoln, America has been concerned with competitiveness
in the world marketplace of technology.
Lately, there's been a bad rumor going around that the work
ethic is dead. It sure isn't -- not when so many of the best new
jobs in the Nation are going to Americans educated in vocational-
technical schools. Sounds to me like the work ethic is alive and
well.
And it's going to stay that way: Eighteen of the 20 fastest
require vocational.
growing occupations within the next decade require vocational- as
?
er.
ora college degree.
abor.
technical education and jobs for technicians will grow 38
percent by the year 2000 -- the fastest of any major occupational
group.
2
All across America, some 26,000 vocational-technical
education institutions provide 16 million Americans with
marketable skills in over 150 occupations.
These students will be the high-tech computer programmers
and operators, equipment assemblers and communications
mention Iled
specialists who stand at the cutting edge of our economy. As we
Ski Ciaftonan,
rely more and more on automation in our industries, employers
will be looking for smart workers who can communicate and solve
problems, from monitoring production rates to repairing robots.
These are people who are skilled on the production line and who
know how to get things done -- one professor told Fortune
magazine they were the new "blue-and-white-striped-collar-
workers" of tomorrow.
Let's look at one of the benefits of vo-tech education:
marketable graduates and lower unemployment. For example, one
study found that graduates of Ohio vocational education programs
earn 21 percent more money four years after graduation than high
school graduates without such training. And unemployment is
lower for vo-tech graduates than for those in the general work
force who are the same age and have the same number of years of
schooling. But even beyond the numbers -- if when vo-tech education
can helps young Americans get a better start in life, then it has
been an overwhelming success. the whole country benefits.
Here's another benefit: improved learning skills. Job
training and academics are not contradictory. Actually, many
people learn academic subjects better in the context of how to
use them on the job. Students in a vo-tech school taking a
3
"Principles of Technology" course will learn about thermal
resistance not from a lab experiment with beakers and test tubes,
but from working with the insulation in a house. Vo-tech schools
are leading the way in educational improvement and "applied
academics."
The partnerships that community colleges and vo-tech
institutes have formed with businesses to provide retraining and
up-to-date skills for their employees are essential. There are
now 23 million adults who receive re-training through vocational-
technical programs which allow them to get new or better jobs.
The reality of life-long learning has arrived.
Building a worldclass workforce is a national priority.
Improving America's capacity to educate and train workers is
critical to the future of this country. That's why today we're
presenting to you the American Vocation Success Awards You have educat
for vocational Technico
become American success stories through your involvement in
vocational-technical education. And you're building a better
America every day.
Each of you has truly lived the American Dream, and each one
of you deserves our congratulations and thanks for your work in
vocational-technical education. God bless you all. Thank you.
And now, we'll be presenting the American Vocation-Success
Awards for Vocational Technical education.
may want to mention Coc Ed can # # be # used asa vehical for a
Career ladder and head to further deducation and advanced
degrees.
Silver medals-
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LOCAL STUDENT WINS IN INTERNATIONAL SKILL OLYMPICS
LEESBURG, Va., September 8, 1989 - Bill Foglia (20) of Virginia Beach,
Virginia, represented the United States during the International Youth
Skill Olympics in Birmingham, England the week of August 28.
Bill won the silver medallion in Advertising Design. He was one of
the 16-member USA team fielded by the Vocational Industrial Clubs of
America (VICA), sponsored by American business, and trained by American
business and vocational education. He is attending the Rose Garden
Ceremony with his teacher and trainer Judy Doyle.
Youths from 22 other nations competed in 38 skilled trades contests
during the week-long event. The team's participation is made possible
through grants from the Coca-Cola Company, The Technical Foundation of
America and 15 other corporations and trade associations including General
Motors. VICA is a nationwide partnership of business and industry,
vocational students and instructors. Its principal goals are to motivate
students and teach leadership skills, assist teachers in providing quality
occupational training, and help businesses recruit motivated workers.
###
This will young be mandince
Celebrating 25 Years of Quality Education
Document No. 010808
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
09/07/89
DATE:
NOON FRIDAY 09/08
ACION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AWARDS
SUBJECT:
(09/07 draft three)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
PINKERTON
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston
by noon on Friday, 09/08, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
OK
SA 8 SEP 68
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
((Grant))
89 SEP 7 P6 : 03
September 7, 1989
Draft three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AWARDS
THE ROSE GARDEN
SEPTEMBER 11, 1989
11:15 A.M.
(Acknowledgements))
There's an old saying: The more things change, the more
things stay the same. Well, today I'm going to talk about our
rapidly changing workforce, and the simple, proven ways America
is preparing for the future.
During the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, the government
made a strong commitment to what most people now consider a
current idea: vocational-technical education. By establishing
the land-grant colleges -- the Agricultural and Mechanical, or "A
& M" schools -- Lincoln ensured that Americans workers were on
the cutting edge of new technologies. Sound familiar? Since the
days of Lincoln, America has been concerned with competitiveness
in the world marketplace of technology.
Lately, there's been a bad rumor going around that the work
ethic is dead. It sure isn't -- not when so many of the best new
jobs in the Nation are going to Americans educated in vocational-
technical schools. Sounds to me like the work ethic is alive and
well.
And it's going to stay that way: Eighteen of the 20 fastest
growing occupations within the next decade require vocational-
technical education, and jobs for technicians will grow 38
percent by the year 2000 -- the fastest of any major occupational
group.
2
All across America, some 26,000 vocational-technical
education institutions provide 16 million Americans with
marketable skills in over 150 occupations.
These students will be the high-tech computer programmers
and operators, equipment assemblers and communications
specialists who stand at the cutting edge of our economy. As we
rely more and more on automation in our industries, employers
will be looking for smart workers who can communicate and solve
problems, from monitoring production rates to repairing robots.
These are people who are skilled on the production line and who
know how to get things done -- one professor told Fortune
magazine they were the new "blue-and-white-striped-collar-
workers" of tomorrow.
Let's look at one of the benefits of vo-tech education:
marketable graduates and lower unemployment. For example, one
study found that graduates of Ohio vocational education programs
earn 21 percent more money four years after graduation than high
school graduates without such training. And unemployment is
lower for vo-tech graduates than for those in the general work
force who are the same age and have the same number of years of
schooling. But even beyond the numbers -- if vo-tech education
can help young Americans get a better start in life, then it has
been an overwhelming success.
Here's another benefit: improved learning skills. Job
training and academics are not contradictory. Actually, many
people learn academic subjects better in the context of how to
use them on the job. Students in a vo-tech school taking a
3
"Principles of Technology" course will learn about thermal
resistance not from a lab experiment with beakers and test tubes,
but from working with the insulation in a house. Vo-tech schools
are leading the way in educational improvement and "applied
academics."
The partnerships that community colleges and vo-tech
institutes have formed with businesses to provide retraining and
up-to-date skills for their employees are essential. There are
now 23 million adults who receive re-training through vocational-
technical programs which allow them to get new or better jobs.
The reality of life-long learning has arrived.
Building a worldclass workforce is a national priority.
Improving America's capacity to educate and train workers is
critical to the future of this country. That's why today we're
presenting to you the American Vocation Success Awards. You have
become American success stories through your involvement in
vocational-technical education. And you're building a better
America every day.
Each of you has truly lived the American Dream, and each one
of you deserves our congratulations and thanks for your work in
vocational-technical education. God bless you all. Thank you.
And now, we'll be presenting the American Vocation Success
Awards
###
Document No. 070808
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
09/07/89
89 SEP NOON FRIDAY 09/08
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
P2:13
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AWARDS
(09/07 draft three)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
PINKERTON
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston
by noon on Friday, 09/08, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
Sa 9/8/89
21:2d comments PEP 68
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Anne - Education - 732-3010
( (Grant) )
89 SEP 7 P6: 03
September 7, 1989
Draft three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AWARDS
THE ROSE GARDEN
SEPTEMBER 11, 1989
11:15 A.M.
((Acknowledgements))
There's an old saying: The more things change, the more
things stay the same. Well, today I'm going to talk about our
rapidly changing workforce, and the simple, proven ways America
is preparing for the future.
During the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, the government
made a strong commitment to what most people now consider a
current idea: vocational-technical education. By establishing
the land-grant colleges -- the Agricultural and Mechanical, or "A
& M" schools -- Lincoln ensured that Americans workers were on
the cutting edge of new technologies. Sound familiar? Since the
days of Lincoln, America has been concerned with competitiveness
in the world marketplace of technology.
Lately, there's been a bad rumor going around that the work
ethic is dead. It sure isn't -- not when so many of the best new
jobs in the Nation are going to Americans educated in vocational-
technical schools. Sounds to me like the work ethic is alive and
well.
And it's going to stay that way: Eighteen of the 20 fastest
growing occupations within the next decade require vocational-
technical education, and jobs for technicians will grow 38
percent by the year 2000 -- the fastest of any major occupational
group.
2
All across America, some 26,000 vocational-technical
education institutions provide 16 million Americans with
marketable skills in over 150 occupations.
These students will be the high-tech computer programmers
and operators, equipment assemblers and communications
mention Iled
specialists who stand at the cutting edge of our economy. As we
Ski Cightonan,
rely more and more on automation in our industries, employers
will be looking for smart workers who can communicate and solve
problems, from monitoring production rates to repairing robots.
These are people who are skilled on the production line and who
know how to get things done -- one professor told Fortune
magazine they were the new "blue-and-white-striped-collar-
workers" of tomorrow.
Let's look at one of the benefits of vo-tech education:
marketable graduates and lower unemployment. For example, one
study found that graduates of Ohio vocational education programs
earn 21 percent more money four years after graduation than high
school graduates without such training. And unemployment is
lower for vo-tech graduates than for those in the general work
force who are the same age and have the same number of years of
when
schooling. But even beyond the numbers -- if vo-tech education
can helps young Americans get a better start in life, then it has
been an overwhelming success. the whole country benefits.
Here's another benefit: improved learning skills. Job
training and academics are not contradictory. Actually, many
people learn academic subjects better in the context of how to
use them on the job. Students in a vo-tech school taking a
3
"Principles of Technology" course will learn about thermal
resistance not from a lab experiment with beakers and test tubes,
but from working with the insulation in a house. Vo-tech schools
are leading the way in educational improvement and "applied
academics."
The partnerships that community colleges and vo-tech
institutes have formed with businesses to provide retraining and
up-to-date skills for their employees are essential. There are
now 23 million adults who receive re-training through vocational-
technical programs which allow them to get new or better jobs.
The reality of life-long learning has arrived.
Building a worldclass workforce is a national priority.
Improving America's capacity to educate and train workers is
critical to the future of this country. That's why today we're
for vocational Technical
presenting to you the American Vocation Success Awards You have educatic
become American success stories through your involvement in
vocational-technical education. And you're building a better
America every day.
Each of you has truly lived the American Dream, and each one
of you deserves our congratulations and thanks for your work in
vocational-technical education. God bless you all. Thank you.
And now, we'll be presenting the American Vocation-Success
Awards for Vocational Technical education.
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Career ladder and head to further reducation and advanced
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Document No. H.T.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
09/07/89
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: NOON FRIDAY 09/08
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AWARDS
SUBJECT:
(09/07 draft three)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
R
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
PINKERTON
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston
by noon on Friday, 09/08, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
No Comments.
89 SEP 8 P12 : 20
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
09/07/89
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
NOON FRIDAY 09/08
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AWARDS
SUBJECT:
(09/07 draft three)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
PINKERTON
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston
by noon on Friday, 09/08, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
No comments or recommendations.
SO : 21d 8 PEP 68
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James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Mention Members
Ext. 2702
We will Call in those who attend.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 8, 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
STEPHEN G. RADEMAKER SR
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Vocational Education Awards
Pursuant to James Cicconi's request, Counsel's Office has
reviewed the above-referenced matter and has no objection to the
Presidential Remarks as drafted.
Thank you for bring this matter to our attention.
CC: James W. Cicconi
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Document No. 070808
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
09/07/89
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
NOON FRIDAY 09/08
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AWARDS
(09/07 draft three)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
PINKERTON
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston
by noon on Friday, 09/08, with a copy to my office. Thanks.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
((Grant))
39 SEP 7 P6 : 03
September 7, 1989
Draft three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AWARDS
THE ROSE GARDEN
SEPTEMBER 11, 1989
11:15 A.M.
((Acknowledgements) )
There's an old saying: The more things change, the more
things stay the same. Well, today I'm going to talk about our
rapidly changing workforce, and the simple, proven ways America
is preparing for the future.
During the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, the government
made a strong commitment to what most people now consider a
current idea: vocational-technical education. By establishing
the land-grant colleges -- the Agricultural and Mechanical, or "A
& M" schools -- Lincoln ensured that Americans workers were on
the cutting edge of new technologies. Sound familiar? Since the
days of Lincoln, America has been concerned with competitiveness
in the world marketplace of technology.
Lately, there's been a bad rumor going around that the work
ethic is dead. It sure isn't -- not when so many of the best new
jobs in the Nation are going to Americans educated in vocational-
technical schools. Sounds to me like the work ethic is alive and
well.
And it's going to stay that way: Eighteen of the 20 fastest
growing occupations within the next decade require vocational-
technical education, and jobs for technicians will grow 38
percent by the year 2000 -- the fastest of any major occupational
group.
2
All across America, some 26,000 vocational-technical
education institutions provide 16 million Americans with
marketable skills in over 150 occupations.
These students will be the high-tech computer programmers
and operators, equipment assemblers and communications
specialists who stand at the cutting edge of our economy. As we
rely more and more on automation in our industries, employers
will be looking for smart workers who can communicate and solve
problems, from monitoring production rates to repairing robots.
These are people who are skilled on the production line and who
know how to get things done -- one professor told Fortune
magazine they were the new "blue-and-white-striped-collar-
workers" of tomorrow.
Let's look at one of the benefits of vo-tech education:
marketable graduates and lower unemployment. For example, one
study found that graduates of Ohio vocational education programs
earn 21 percent more money four years after graduation than high
school graduates without such training. And unemployment is
lower for vo-tech graduates than for those in the general work
force who are the same age and have the same number of years of
schooling. But even beyond the numbers -- if vo-tech education
can help young Americans get a better start in life, then it has
been an overwhelming success.
Here's another benefit: improved learning skills. Job
training and academics are not contradictory. Actually, many
people learn academic subjects better in the context of how to
use them on the job. Students in a vo-tech school taking a
3
"Principles of Technology" course will learn about thermal
resistance not from a lab experiment with beakers and test tubes,
but from working with the insulation in a house. Vo-tech schools
are leading the way in educational improvement and "applied
academics."
The partnerships that community colleges and vo-tech
institutes have formed with businesses to provide retraining and
up-to-date skills for their employees are essential. There are
now 23 million adults who receive re-training through vocational-
technical programs which allow them to get new or better jobs.
The reality of life-long learning has arrived.
Building a worldclass workforce is a national priority.
Improving America's capacity to educate and train workers is
critical to the future of this country. That's why today we're
presenting to you the American Vocation Success Awards. You have
become American success stories through your involvement in
vocational-technical education. And you're building a better
America every day.
Each of you has truly lived the American Dream, and each one
of you deserves our congratulations and thanks for your work in
vocational-technical education. God bless you all. Thank you.
And now, we'll be presenting the American Vocation Success
Awards
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 8, 1989
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON CW
FROM:
MARY KATE GRANT MKg
SUBJECT:
AMERICAN SUCCESS AWARDS CEREMONY
FOR VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION
I. SUMMARY
Attached for your review are brief remarks for the
vocational-technical education awards ceremony, to be held on
Monday, September 11, at 11:15 a.m. in the Rose Garden.
II. DISCUSSION
You will be making brief remarks from cards (5-7 minutes) at
the awards ceremony, after which Mike Farley, the chairman of the
National Council for Vocational-Technical Education, will present
the awards.
The National Council serves at your appointment. It is
currently involved in a public awareness campaign to improve the
image of vo-tech education. The remarks stress the importance of
having a skilled workforce for a strong economy.
( (Grant) )
September 7, 1989
Draft three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN SUCCESS AWARDS
THE ROSE GARDEN
SEPTEMBER 11, 1989
11:15 A.M.
( (Acknowledgements) )
There's an old saying: The more things change, the more
things stay the same. Well, today I'm going to talk about our
rapidly changing workforce, and the simple, proven ways America
is preparing for the future.
During the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, the government
made a strong commitment to what most people now consider a
current idea: vocational-technical education. By establishing
the land-grant colleges -- the Agricultural and Mechanical, or "A
& M" schools -- Lincoln ensured that Americans workers were on
the cutting edge of new technologies. Sound familiar? Since the
days of Lincoln, America has been concerned with competitiveness
in the world marketplace of technology.
Lately, there's been a bad rumor going around that the work
ethic is dead. It sure isn't -- not when so many of the best new
jobs in the Nation are going to Americans educated in vocational-
technical schools. Sounds to me like the work ethic is alive and
well.
And it's going to stay that way: Eighteen of the 20 fastest
growing occupations within the next decade require vocational-
technical education, and jobs for technicians will grow 38
percent by the year 2000 -- the fastest of any major occupational
group.
2
All across America, some 26,000 vocational-technical
education institutions provide 16 million Americans with
marketable skills in over 150 occupations.
These students will be the high-tech computer programmers
and operators, equipment assemblers and communications
specialists who stand at the cutting edge of our economy. As we
rely more and more on automation in our industries, employers
will be looking for smart workers who can communicate and solve
problems, from monitoring production rates to repairing robots.
People who are skilled on the production line and who know how to
get things done -- and craftsmen such as computer programers,
electrical engineers, and practical nurses who keep our economy
going strong.
Let's look at one of the benefits of vo-tech education:
marketable graduates and lower unemployment. For example, one
study found that graduates of Ohio vocational education programs
earn 21 percent more money four years after graduation than high
school graduates without such training. And unemployment is
lower for vo-tech graduates than for those in the general work
force who are the same age and have the same number of years of
schooling. But even beyond the numbers -- when vo-tech education
can help young Americans get a better start in life, then the
whole country benefits.
Here's another benefit: improved learning skills. Job
training and academics are not contradictory. Actually, many
people learn academic subjects better in the context of how to
use them on the job. Students in a vo-tech school taking a
3
"Principles of Technology" course will learn about thermal
resistance not from a lab experiment with beakers and test tubes,
but from working with the insulation in a house. Vo-tech schools
are leading the way in educational improvement and "applied
academics."
The partnerships that community colleges and vo-tech
institutes have formed with businesses to provide retraining and
up-to-date skills for their employees are essential. There are
now 23 million adults who receive re-training through vocational-
technical programs which allow them to get new or better jobs.
The reality of life-long learning has arrived.
We call it "career ladder opportunities" -- the kind of
education that builds bridges between vocational education and
higher education. It's the kind of education that puts more and
more Americans on the ladder to success.
Building a worldclass workforce is a national priority.
Improving America's capacity to educate and train workers is
critical to the future of this country. That's why today we're
presenting to you the American Vocation Success Awards. You have
become American success stories through your involvement in
vocational-technical education. And you're building a better
America every day.
Each of you has truly lived the American Dream, and each one
of you deserves our congratulations and thanks for your work in
vocational-technical education. God bless you all. Thank you.
And now, let's present these awards to success
# # #
070808SS
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
9/9/89
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DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
AMERICAN SUCCESS AWARDS CEREMONY
FOR VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION
SUBJECT:
THE ROSE GARDEN
SEPTEMBER 11, 1989
(9/7 - draft three)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
PINKERTON
CARD
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
1000
September 8, 1989
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON CW
FROM:
MARY KATE GRANT MKg
SUBJECT:
AMERICAN SUCCESS AWARDS CEREMONY
FOR VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION
I. SUMMARY
Attached for your review are brief remarks for the
vocational-technical education awards ceremony, to be held on
Monday, September 11, at 11:15 a.m. in the Rose Garden.
II. DISCUSSION
You will be making brief remarks from cards (5-7 minutes) at
the awards ceremony, after which Mike Farley, the chairman of the
National Council for Vocational-Technical Education, will present
the awards.
The National Council serves at your appointment. It is
currently involved in a public awareness campaign to improve the
image of vo-tech education. The remarks stress the importance of
having a skilled workforce for a strong economy.
( (Grant))
September 7, 1989
Draft three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN SUCCESS AWARDS
THE ROSE GARDEN
SEPTEMBER 11, 1989
11:15 A.M.
( (Acknowledgements) )
There's an old saying: The more things change, the more
things stay the same. Well, today I'm going to talk about our
rapidly changing workforce, and the simple, proven ways America
is preparing for the future.
During the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, the government
made a strong commitment to what most people now consider a
current idea: vocational-technical education. By establishing
the land-grant colleges -- the Agricultural and Mechanical, or "A
& M" schools -- Lincoln ensured that Americans workers were on
the cutting edge of new technologies. Sound familiar? Since the
days of Lincoln, America has been concerned with competitiveness
in the world marketplace of technology.
Lately, there's been a bad rumor going around that the work
ethic is dead. It sure isn't -- not when so many of the best new
jobs in the Nation are going to Americans educated in vocational-
technical schools. Sounds to me like the work ethic is alive and
well.
And it's going to stay that way: Eighteen of the 20 fastest
growing occupations within the next decade require vocational-
technical education, and jobs for technicians will grow 38
percent by the year 2000 -- the fastest of any major occupational
group.
2
All across America, some 26,000 vocational-technical
education institutions provide 16 million Americans with
marketable skills in over 150 occupations.
These students will be the high-tech computer programmers
and operators, equipment assemblers and communications
specialists who stand at the cutting edge of our economy. As we
rely more and more on automation in our industries, employers
will be looking for smart workers who can communicate and solve
problems, from monitoring production rates to repairing robots.
People who are skilled on the production line and who know how to
get things done -- and craftsmen such as computer programers,
electrical engineers, and practical nurses who keep our economy
going strong.
Let's look at one of the benefits of vo-tech education:
marketable graduates and lower unemployment. For example, one
study found that graduates of Ohio vocational education programs
earn 21 percent more money four years after graduation than high
school graduates without such training. And unemployment is
lower for vo-tech graduates than for those in the general work
force who are the same age and have the same number of years of
schooling. But even beyond the numbers -- when vo-tech education
can help young Americans get a better start in life, then the
whole country benefits.
Here's another benefit: improved learning skills. Job
training and academics are not contradictory. Actually, many
people learn academic subjects better in the context of how to
use them on the job. Students in a vo-tech school taking a
3
"Principles of Technology" course will learn about thermal
resistance not from a lab experiment with beakers and test tubes,
but from working with the insulation in a house. Vo-tech schools
are leading the way in educational improvement and "applied
academics."
The partnerships that community colleges and vo-tech
institutes have formed with businesses to provide retraining and
up-to-date skills for their employees are essential. There are
now 23 million adults who receive re-training through vocational-
technical programs which allow them to get new or better jobs.
The reality of life-long learning has arrived.
We call it "career ladder opportunities" -- the kind of
education that builds bridges between vocational education and
higher education. It's the kind of education that puts more and
more Americans on the ladder to success.
Building a worldclass workforce is a national priority.
Improving America's capacity to educate and train workers is
critical to the future of this country. That's why today we're
presenting to you the American Vocation Success Awards. You have
become American success stories through your involvement in
vocational-technical education. And you're building a better
America every day.
Each of you has truly lived the American Dream, and each one
of you deserves our congratulations and thanks for your work in
vocational-technical education. God bless you all. Thank you.
And now, let's present these awards to success
###
Jan. 25 / Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1988
RR 1988 SOU
There is another vital reform. Yes,
that good teachers get A's as well as
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings has been pro-
apples-and stronger curriculum, as Secre-
foundly helpful, but let us take its goal of a
tary Bennett has proposed for high
balanced budget and make it permanent.
schools-these imaginative reforms are
Let us do now what so many States do to
making common sense the most popular
hold down spending and what 32 State leg-
new kid in America's schools.
islatures have asked us to do. Let us heed
How can we help? Well, we can talk
the wishes of an overwhelming plurality of
about and push for these reforms. But the
Americans and pass a constitutional amend-
most important thing we can do is to reaf-
ment that mandates a balanced budget and
firm that control of our schools belongs to
forces the Federal Government to live
the States, local communities and, most of
within its means.
all, to the parents and teachers.
Reform of the budget process-including
the line-item veto and balanced budget
My friends, some years ago, the Federal
amendment-will, together with real re-
Government declared war on poverty, and
poverty won. [Laughter] Today the Federal
straint on government spending, prevent
the Federal budget from ever again ravag-
Government has 59 major welfare programs
ing the family budget.
and spends more than $100 billion a year
Let's ensure that the Federal Govern-
on them. What has all this money done?
ment never again legislates against the
Well, too often it has only made poverty
family and the home. Last September I
harder to escape. Federal welfare programs
signed an Executive order on the family
have created a massive social problem.
requiring that every department and
With the best of intentions, government
agency review it activities in light of seven
created a poverty trap that wreaks havoc
standards designed to promote and not
on the very support system the poor need
harm the family. But let us make certain
most to lift themselves out of poverty: the
that the family is always at the center of the
family. Dependency has become the one
public policy process not just in this admin-
enduring heirloom, passed from one gen-
istration but in all future administrations.
eration to the next, of too many fragmented
It's time for Congress to consider, -at the
families.
beginning, a statement of the impact that
It is time-this may be the most radical
legislation will have on the basic unit of
thing I've said in 7 years in this office-it's
American society, the family.
time for Washington to show a little humil-
And speaking of the family, let's turn to a
ity. There are a thousand sparks of genius in
matter on the mind of every American
50 States and a thousand communities
parent tonight: education. We all know the
around the Nation. It is time to nurture
sorry story of the sixties and seventies—
them and see which ones can catch fire and
soaring spending, plummeting test scores—
become guiding lights.
and that hopeful trend of the eighties,
States have begun to show us the way.
when we replaced an obsession with dollars
They've demonstrated that successful wel-
with a commitment to quality, and test
fare programs can be built around more
scores started back up. There's a lesson here
effective child support enforcement prac-
that we all should write on the blackboard a
tices and innovative programs requiring
hundred times: In a child's education,
welfare recipients to work or prepare for
money can never take the place of basics
work. Let us give the States more flexibility
like discipline, hard work, and, yes, home-
and encourage more reforms. Let's start
work.
making our welfare system the first rung on
As a nation we do, of course, spend heavi-
America's ladder of opportunity, a boost up
ly on education-more than we spend on
from dependency, not a graveyard but a
defense. Yet across our country, Governors
birthplace of hope.
like New Jersey's Tom Kean are giving
And now let me turn to three other mat-
classroom demonstrations that how we
ters vital to family values and the quality
spend is as important as how much we
family life. The first is an untold America.
spend. Opening up the teaching profession
success story. Recently, we released our
to all qualified candidates, merit pay-so
annual survey of what graduating high
88