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Bookkeeping and Electronic Record Management Vocational Training Program
A Collaboration of Community High Schools, Community Colleges and the Private Sector

The goal of this program is to better prepare the next generation for the fiscal and practical realities of work and family in the new millennium. The internet is fueling the already high demand for computer and internet literate bookkeepers and electronic record managers. Corporate America is downsizing its data entry departments by driving customers on line with the mantra "You can access your account and do it yourself all on-line." On line filing and electronic record retention requirements are chewing up an increasing number of hours and small business is one of the fastest growing employment markets in the country.

Poor pay for work traditionally performed by women continues to fuel the poverty rate among women and children. The demand for a new generation of administrative support personnel for the small business market presents a unique opportunity for working class women to set their own schedules and wage standards.

Childcare is a significant barrier to entry into living wage work and continuing education for women who have dropped out of high school or college. Bookkeeping and electronic record management require only a GED level skill set and lend themselves to flexible scheduling. Allowing women to work with fiscal records on flexible schedules of their own design teaches personal and financial responsibility, develops a work ethic, and engenders self confidence. This program, a practical bookkeeping and electronic record management course currently being taught at Nantucket High School, uses an MBA based case study approach to teach basic accounting and bookkeeping and impart a working knowledge of human resources, insurance, banking and database management.

In Massachusetts one of the results of mandatory standardized testing, the MCAS, is vocational class cuts. Male high school drop outs fuel the crime rate, thus practical reality has dictated deeper cuts in women’s programming. Women in this class are doing college level work. Offering an enrichment program for pre-school age children to students during class hours provides additional benefits that allow the class to function as a vocational outreach program for young women.

Project Outline

  • The community high schools provide the space (computer rooms) and administrative support for class registration.
  • The community colleges furnish the instructors, college credits, space (classes will also be offered on campus), and an accounting help line, a question and answer resource for class attendees and program graduates.

Contact CGLCO
Christina G. LeBlanc, Program Coordinator
Telephone: 508-221-0326
christina@cglco.com
PO Box 735, Falmouth, MA 02541