The Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College Career Training (TAACCCT) program is providing nearly $2 billion in funds to build the capacity of our nation’s community colleges. Grantees are using these funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs that can be completed in two years or less and prepare program participants for employement in high-wage, high-skill occupations.

The Acceleration Strategies series covers the TAACCCT grantees’ use of Prior Learning Assessment to accelerate credential attainment for adult students with considerable work experience and the models used by TAACCCT grantees to support underprepared adult learners.