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California training programs, and what happened to the people who took them

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Every California training program in the federal record: what it costs, how long it takes, and — where the provider reported it — how many people finished, how many were working six months later, and what they earned. Free to use, no account, and the roughly one program in three that reported nothing is listed here too, saying so.

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Programs that reported nothing

Hiding them is not the same as hiding bad programs. Nobody knows how those 1,209 did — only that they did not say: some filed nothing, and for others the figure was withheld to protect the privacy of a small group.

A program is in one of California's labor-market regions when the state's own title for that region names its city, or names the county its ZIP code is in. Neither rule guesses. That leaves 165 of these 3,266 programs in no region at all — a ZIP code reaching into two regions at once is left in neither, because either answer would look exactly as correct as the other. Choosing a region hides those 165; it does not move them somewhere else.

Tuition and supplies as the provider reported them, for someone paying without public workforce funding. No grant or aid you might qualify for is taken off it.

Weeks as the provider reported them. Length is also what makes two completion rates comparable: among California programs whose figures describe that program alone, the median share who finished is 97% at four weeks or less, and falls at every step up in length to 78% beyond a year. A long program and a short one are not being measured on the same scale.

  • 2,057 of these 3,266 programs reported what happened to their students. The other 1,209 reported nothing at all, which is not evidence that they are worse.
  • 538 of these programs train for work California expects there to be less of in ten years.
  • 165 of the 3,266 are in no region: California's own published area titles name neither their city nor a single county their ZIP code is in, so no region's pay or openings figures are claimed for them.

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