SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Congress Killed Even Bigger Program That Didn't Pass Muster
Jeffrey Mervis
A flurry of well-intentioned programs in the early 1990s attempted to retrain displaced defense workers, but most of them fell far short of the mark. A $55 million Department of Defense program called the Manufacturing Education and Training program, for example, sank without a trace in 1995 after a hostile Congress turned against it and defense officials decided that retraining wasn't part of the department's mission.