A notice has been posted to the HELP Committee website providing notice that Perkins CTE will be marked up on Wednesday, June 20th.
The Committee notice and eventually, testimony and video can be found at Senate HELP Committee Link
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How Toyota is Helping Engineer a New Future for 11 Cincinnati Kids
When 11 Cincinnati high school students started a summer program at Woodward Technical High School to learn mechanical engineering from Toyota engineers, they weren’t exactly chomping at the bit.
“At first, you could tell they weren’t really interested,” said Robbie Tackett, one of the five Toyota engineers who spent five days a week for the last six weeks working on technical skills with the students. “But once we got to the hands-on activities, actually connecting the circuits and doing the programming, they became more engaged.”
Preparing the Next Generation of Manufacturers through Community Colleges
On July 9, Governance Studies at Brookings hosted a half-day conference focused on the growing partnerships between community colleges and the manufacturing sector. Panels focused on the future of workforce development and the role of community colleges in the training of manufacturing workers. How are community colleges working to prepare the next generation of innovators in the manufacturing space and ready young adults to enter the workforce?
Why We Need Apprenticeship Programs for High School Students
By on July 9, 2015 12:02 PM
If you are a 15-year-old beginning high school, which country would you rather belong to?
What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up 101
A New Look at Apprenticeships as a Path to the Middle Class
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — With its gleaming classrooms, sports teams and even a pep squad, the Apprentice School that serves the enormous Navy shipyard here bears little resemblance to a traditional vocational education program.
And that is exactly the point. While the cheerleaders may double as trainee pipe fitters, electricians and insulators, on weekends they’re no different from college students anywhere as they shout for the Apprentice School Builders on the sidelines.
But instead of accumulating tens of thousands of dollars in student debt, Apprentice School students are paid an annual salary of $54,000 by the final year of the four-year program, and upon graduation are guaranteed a job with Huntington Ingalls Industries, the military contractor that owns Newport News Shipbuilding.
What Happens When Struggling High-Schoolers Take College Classes
High schools across the country are taking what might seem like a counterintuitive approach to educating some of their most at-risk students.
They’re enrolling them in college before they even graduate from high school.
A new report from the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy suggests that dual-enrollment programs, where students take classes simultaneously in high school and at a local college, have proven especially successful at getting less-affluent and first-generation students into college—and through it.
As City Prepares to Redouble Focus on Career and Tech Programs, Fariña Names New Leader
Students at Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School. ( Photo by Jessica Glazer )
The longtime principal of “Coop Tech” is the city’s new head of career and technical education.
John Widlund is well-versed in the city’s programs mixing practical skills and academics, having started teaching electrical installation at just 19 years old through an apprenticeship program. Twenty years later, and after a seven-year stint leading the School of Cooperative Technical Education, he will be overseeing CTE programs citywide Chancellor Carmen Fariña, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and the teachers union have all promised to ramp up their support.
“One hundred and twenty thousand kids each year are touched by our CTE programs,” de Blasio said in June, “and we are going to strengthen them and we are going to make them available to even more.”
The Manufacturing Institute: “Close the Skills Gap”
Labor Secretary Says Apprenticeship Efforts Key to Skilled Work Force During Triad Visit
Thomas Perez offered a unique analogy for the U.S. Department of Labor during a visit to Forsyth Technical Community College on Tuesday, saying that the department he heads as secretary is like the online dating website Match.com.
“We try to match job seekers who want to punch their ticket to the middle class with employers who want to grow their business,” Perez said during a roundtable discussion at the college with local members of the biotech industry.
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