Change makes veterans job-training program available at SPC

Changes to rules for a Department of Veterans Affairs job-training program for unemployed veterans will allow St. Petersburg College and other community colleges to take part, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
Wording in rules for the program, set to launch July 1, would have left most of the state’s community colleges, including SPC, ineligible to participate, according to the article published Friday. However, after a complaint by Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Palm Harbor, vice chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, the VA changed the rules of the program, the newspaper reported. That change will allow community colleges offering a limited number of bachelor’s degrees to take part in the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program or VRAP.