No college degree? No problem. Newsom presents a solution

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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday announced the details of a solution aimed at making it easier for Californians to land high-paying jobs, regardless of whether they went to college — and said he wants to invest $100 million to help implement the proposals.

Dubbed the Master Plan for Career Education, Newsom’s blueprint calls for a number of new tools and policies, including making it easier for people without college degrees to get state jobs and earn college credits for things like military service and volunteer work.

Newsom said the plan, introduced at a news conference at Redding’s Shasta College, recognizes that the path to a stable career can run through a four-year degree program but can also come through non-college experience.

“This is around the recognition that we need to create a framework where you can get the benefit of a life well lived that does not include some fancy degree,” Newsom said. “Everybody is included in this agenda.”

Newsom said the state has already implemented portions of the plan, including removing the college degree requirement for nearly 30,000 state jobs; he plans to double that number by next year.

The plan unveiled Monday also calls for the creation of career passports — essentially a digital tool that lays out someone’s academic records, skills and credentials.

More Latinos enrolled in college but remain underrepresented among workers in science, tech, engineering and mathematics