Table of Contents
- Fueling the Fight for Net Neutrality
- Embracing Ranked-Choice Voting as a Pathway to Pluralism
- Measuring U.S. Drone Use and Misuse
- Fulfilling the Promise of Child Savings Accounts
- Linking the Individual Mandate and Social Responsibility
- Tracking Terrorism in the United States
- Early Education Doesn't End at Pre-K
- Making Higher Education Outcomes Transparent
- Redefining Care Policy
- Using TV "White Spaces" to Create Equitable Internet Access
- Investing in America's Future Thinkers
- Proposing the Public Option
- Creating a Public Interest Technology Sector
- Building a New Practice of Public Problem-Solving
- Expanding Access to High School-Age Youth for High-Quality Apprenticeship Opportunities
- Engaging North Korea
- A Universal 401(k) Plan
- Measuring the Internet for Everyone
- Rethinking Economic Policy
- Documenting the Long Wars
- Ranking Digital Rights
- Future Tense
- Using Fiction to Make Policy More…Realistic
- Pop-Up Magazine
- Developing an MA in Global Security
- Helping Communities Deploy Mesh Networks
- Partnering with Universities
Expanding Access to High School-Age Youth for High-Quality Apprenticeship Opportunities
Idea
To better nurture the potential of our nation's high school-age youth, New America's Brent Parton authored a seminal report called Youth Apprenticeship in America Today. It catalyzed the idea of youth apprenticeship as a means to expand access to high-quality opportunities by creating affordable, reliable, and equitable pathways from high school to good jobs and college degrees.
Incubation
In October 2018, New America launched the Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship (PAYA), a multi-year, multi-partner initiative to support place-based efforts to expand access to high-quality youth apprenticeship opportunities for high school-age youth. Led by New America, PAYA will build awareness of youth apprenticeship, disseminate analysis about the conditions and strategies that make it successful, and provide direct support to local innovators working to expand youth apprenticeship in cities and states across the country.
Impact
In May 2019, the Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship selected nine grantees from an extremely competitive pool of over 220 applicants from 49 states and Puerto Rico. These grants will support place-based partnerships of employers, educators, community partners, and policy leaders who are working together to build high-quality youth apprenticeship programs to improve outcomes for students, employers, and communities. In addition to these nine stand-out programs, PAYA formed a network of over 40 other youth apprenticeship partnerships across the country to better share resources, information, and opportunities amongst members and to support the growth of a well-networked national field.