Governor tasks agency heads with workforce plan

AUSTIN — On Feb. 13, Gov. Greg Abbott cited HB 3 in assigning the commissioners of three state agencies to identify strategies to meet the state’s future workforce needs through his 2016 Tri-Agency Workforce Initiative. He instructed them to deliver a report to him by Sept. 1. “The passage of House Bill 3 marked the most significant transformation of our education system in decades and an…