[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 135 (Friday, August 11, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S12420-S12421]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                  ACADEMY OF RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION

 Mr. MACK. Mr. President, I rise today to support and recognize 
the significant achievements of the Academy of Residential Construction 
[ARC], a major training effort in my State to teach noncollege bound 
high school students a trade in the homebuilding industry. As ARC 
prepares for its second year of skilled carpentry framer training, it 
is refreshing to see a partnership that is free from Government funds 
and enthusiastically embraced by both the business community and 
educators.
  ARC is an ambitious collaboration between William H. Turner Technical 
Arts High School, the Builders Association of South Florida, the Latin 
Builders Association, Inc., the Home Builders Institute, PAVE, and the 
Education and Training Foundation. Through ARC, secondary students, 
many of whom are disadvantaged, work with south Florida's leading 
educators, builders, manufacturers, and suppliers to learn homebuilding 
from the ground up. With the help of the Fannie Mae Foundation, these 
partners have developed the Nation's first and only high school 
construction training program 

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designed by builders and educators specifically to meet builder's 
needs.
  Students enrolled in ARC receive approximately 1,100 hours of 
multidimensional training which include classroom, shop, laboratory, 
and worksite instruction during grades 9 through 12. Having passed 
builder approved standards and upon graduation, ARC students are 
certified as skilled in carpentry framing.
  It is refreshing to see a community and the entire homebuilding 
industry actively involved in a program that helps make students 
immediately employable once they graduate high school. I am very proud 
of Miami's ARC Program and the financial commitment made by the Fannie 
Mae Foundation to train the next generation of homebuilders.


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