Lawmakers See Need To Untangle Voc.-Ed. Web

By Meg Sommerfeld

Washington

In contrast with partisan clashes elsewhere on Capitol Hill, Democratic and Republican lawmakers agreed last week on the need to streamline the tangled web of federal vocational-education and job-training programs.

That matter was the first order of business in the new Congress for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, which devoted three days of hearings to it last week. The House Economic and Educational Opportunities Committee also spent a...