California retraining grants directed towards biofuels workers

In California, about 55 students will begin classes in March of 2012, with each student receiving the equivalent of a $7,000 grant from the State of California. The students, who will attend classes at UC San Diego Extension and Mira Costa College, are the second cohort of students in a program funded by a two-year, $4-million grant from California’s Department of Labor under the Green Innovation Challenge.

The purpose of the program is to retrain workers as general science technicians in the rapidly expanding biofuels industry in the San Diego and Imperial County region.