This guide provides an overview of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 to help familiarize legislators with the law and its implementation and to give them information to answer questions from their constituents about the act. The following information is presented: (1) the goals of the act; (2) how school-to-work initiatives work; (3) the approach taken by school-to-work initiatives; (4) statistics showing that the school-to-work approach works; (5) answers to frequently-asked questions; and (6) statements of support from organizations involved in school-to-work initiatives. (KC)