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Driving Policy Change for Work-Based Learning
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December 1, 2025

Driving Policy Change for Work-Based Learning

How states remove barriers and scale apprenticeship: leadership, employer demand, data and funding models on the road to 4 million apprentices by 2035.


What's inside

  • Why there is no cookie-cutter model, and why the priority is scalable statewide systems rather than an endless run of pilots
  • What moves the needle at state level: leadership matters more than policy or funding alone, with Maryland, Virginia, Texas and Arizona among the fastest growing
  • Why everything has to be employer-driven. Employers are the customers who define the skills needed, and they also need skin in the game as co-producers of talent
  • How data becomes the catalyst: mapping shortages and preparation deserts lets states and funders send resources where the need actually is
  • Why consistent formula-based funding beats unpredictable grant cycles, and how registered apprenticeship's day-one job placement unlocks GI Bill and WIOA eligibility
  • The scale picture: a goal of 4 million apprentices by 2035, roughly 2 percent of the population and on par with Germany, Switzerland and the UK, against about 700,000 today. Apprenticeship funding went from no programmatic dollars in 2014 to 300 million today

Who it's for

State policymakers, workforce agency and apprenticeship office leaders, and advocates working the policy and funding side of work-based learning.

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