As high-tech industries pour into Kentucky, they’re bringing a boatload of good jobs with them — an estimated 150,000-plus job openings annually for those with advanced academic credentials.
The state has made substantial investments to build up the local workforce so it can fill those positions, including new and improved training facilities, increased apprenticeships and work study and accreditation programs. But state leaders and advocates are aiming to create not just a pipeline of talent for the near term but the roots of an educational “ecosystem,” where students leave high school primed to tackle jobs of the future and solve bigger and more complex challenges.
