Oklahoma's workforce management system is on the cusp of significant change after both bodies of the state legislature passed a bill that will create an Oklahoma Workforce Commission.
Oklahoma needs a singular workforce owner, a leading force that will set visions and goals to fulfill workforce needs, reduce administrative costs, eliminate wasteful duplication, align funding with goals that produce effective results and hold state entities accountable for failures and shortcomings. Senate Bill 621 presents a plan that will establish leadership and bring the state’s workforce into alignment.
A workforce revitalization bill that creates an Oklahoma Workforce Commission is back on track after it passed the Oklahoma Senate on Wednesday.
Enel North America, a leading renewable energy company, is investing over $1 billion in Oklahoma to build an industrial-scale solar cell and panel manufacturing facility in Inola.
Student members of Oklahoma's Business Professionals of America brought home a slew of awards from the BPA National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, Calif.
A historic reform package that will invest $625 million in Oklahoma's educational system is on its way to becoming law.
An Oklahoma House of Representatives bill that adjusts scholarship eligibility requirements to enable more students to become teachers was signed into law.
Newly released research shows that although employment is strong in the U.S., the manufacturing industry is wrestling with a certified truck driver shortage, a struggle Oklahoma has been feeling and has taken legislative action to overcome.
State leaders came together in unity Monday to announce a historic education package that will provide hundreds of millions of dollars to schools across the state and give every teacher a significant pay raise.
Hundreds of young Oklahoma DECA members traveled to Orlando, Fla., recently to compete against students from throughout the world.
"There is a lot of good work being done along Oklahoma's workforce pipeline, but there is nobody that walks into work every day with the job of coordinating the state’s workforce development entities. That needs to change"
"I think a high tide raises all ships. So we want to make sure that we're creating a competitive business environment, support what we've got, grow what we've got, and then bring in new entities as well."
