The Thread

A 5-point checklist to assess if your training program is RAP-ready, how to score your audit, and where data infrastructure like Craft bridges gaps.

Shows how most training providers are already 80% RAP-ready and how to translate curriculum, fieldwork, wages, and data into a compliant, fundable Registered Apprenticeship.

Explains how federal RAP regulations turn existing good practices into enforceable protections—covering training hours, wages, safety, EEO, and records—so apprentices gain real skills and recognized credentials.

Explains the apprenticeship coordinator’s core duties across tracking hours, wage progression, and feedback, why spreadsheets fail at scale, and how better tools sustain growth.

Explains RTI’s role in apprenticeship, who can provide it, delivery models, typical hours, a “good RTI” checklist, and how to align instruction and records with sponsors and credentials.

Explains the RAP sponsor’s role as program owner, main duties across standards, registration, reporting, supervision, and coordination, plus guidance on whether to sponsor or stay a partner.