For-profit firm bids to run Hoosier worker training
Source: BY KEITH BENMAN, Northwest Indiana Times (IN), Friday, March 10, 2006 1:03 AM CST
Northwest Indiana could see national for-profit firms bidding to run WorkOne employment offices and worker training programs under Gov. Mitch Daniels' drive to reorganize work force training in Indiana. Arbor Education & Training LLC has put in a bid to provide those services in the Evansville region and is expected to bid on some of the state's nine other work force regions, according to Chuck Roche, director of the Shawnee Trace Workforce Investment Board, based in Vincennes. .... Daniels has said the primary goal of the reforms is to better align work force development with economic development. But it now appears the move could lead to the privatization of work force services. Daniels also has moved aggressively to privatize corrections services, many social services and the Indiana Toll Road.