Career Oriented Curriculum of the D.C. School System. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs. United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session.

The subject of this hearing was the partnership between the District of Columbia's public schools and several private companies. This partnership resulted in the establishment of a school curriculum giving high school students exposure to specific career training and also orientation to the workplace. The training was in the fields of pre-engineering, the health professions, communications, business and finance, and hotel management and the culinary arts. Oral testimony describing the programs (which included schools within schools) and their impact was presented by a student and a faculty member from a participating school, by the superintendent of schools, and by a representative of the participating corporations. Prepared statements were also submitted for the record by the last three witnesses. The chairman of the subcommittee submitted a copy of a newspaper article by Jacob Javits duscussing the role of business in innovative education and training programs. (CMG)