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Owner Darlene Miller of Permac Industries in Burnsville tells the 

 how the disappearance of vocational education has harmed students:

She helped start the Right Skills Now training program, a 16-week combination of training and internships designed to help students become entry-level operators in the area of computer numerical controlled (CNC) machining.

The Journal looks at the program, the so-called "jobs-skills gap," and attempts by the state and 

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Owner Darlene Miller of Permac Industries in Burnsville tells the Twin Cities Business Journal how the disappearance of vocational education has harmed students: “I don’t think it’s coincidental that when our [high school] dropout rate increased by 30 percent was when all of our technical classes in our high schools ended.” She helped start the…

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