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Long time advocate and researcher of career and technical education.
Pennsylvania’s 2025–26 CTE Overhaul Starts in Fifth Grade and Doesn’t Stop Until Students Have Credentials
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Pennsylvania’s 2025–26 CTE Overhaul Starts in Fifth Grade and Doesn’t Stop Until Students Have Credentials

Starting Earlier: Career Awareness Before Middle School Pennsylvania's 2025–26 school year is rolling out the most significant structural expansion of CTE programming in recent memory, and it starts earlier than…
Posted by Bob Young April 5, 2026
PDE Releases Statewide Catalog of Approved CTE Industry Credentials
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PDE Releases Statewide Catalog of Approved CTE Industry Credentials

A Resource Hiding in Plain Sight Every Pennsylvania CTC director knows that the state publishes a list of approved industry-recognized credentials. Most have glanced at it. Far fewer have built…
Posted by Bob Young April 4, 2026
IES Launches Pennsylvania Study on CTE Credentials and Postsecondary Outcomes
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IES Launches Pennsylvania Study on CTE Credentials and Postsecondary Outcomes

The Evidence Gap CTE Has Been Avoiding Career and technical education has enjoyed a renaissance over the past decade. Enrollment is up, bipartisan support is strong, and industry partnerships have…
Posted by Bob Young April 4, 2026
Pennsylvania Independence Act Could Reshape CTE Center Governance Statewide
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Pennsylvania Independence Act Could Reshape CTE Center Governance Statewide

A Governance Structure Built for Another Era Pennsylvania operates more than 80 career and technical education centers, institutions that train students in everything from advanced manufacturing and health sciences to…
Posted by Bob Young April 3, 2026
Philadelphia Targets 8,000 Youth Jobs Through C2L-PHL Summer 2026
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Philadelphia Targets 8,000 Youth Jobs Through C2L-PHL Summer 2026

The Scale of the Ambition Philadelphia has run summer youth employment programs before. WorkReady Philadelphia has been a fixture of the city's summer landscape for over two decades, placing thousands…
Posted by Bob Young April 3, 2026
Diverse high school students in a Pennsylvania CTE workshop learning precision welding and fabrication under instructor guidance, with career preparation tools and equipment in the background.
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$4.1 Million in New Grants Extends Pennsylvania’s Schools-to-Work Reach to 52 Programs and 2,295 Students — And This Round Funds Something New

For the first time, a Pennsylvania Schools-to-Work grant is being used to build a pre-apprenticeship pathway into teaching. Whether that model spreads tells us something about how flexible these programs…
Posted by Bob Young April 2, 2026
A spacious union apprenticeship training facility interior with multiple welding and pipefitting stations, HVAC training rigs, and apprentices working under structured instruction, representing modern skilled trades education infrastructure.
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Governor Shapiro Commits $8 Million to Philadelphia Steamfitters Training Center, With Eye on Tripling Apprenticeship Rolls

Philadelphia's Steamfitters Local 420 is about to get significantly larger — and the implications for the city's CTE-to-apprenticeship pipeline are significant, though not automatic. --- What Happened Governor Josh Shapiro…
Posted by Bob Young April 2, 2026
Philadelphia's $4.6B Budget Deficit Threatens to Hollow Out CTE Programs at the Worst Possible Time hero
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Philadelphia’s $4.6B Budget Deficit Threatens to Hollow Out CTE Programs at the Worst Possible Time

On Thursday, March 26, 2026, the Philadelphia School Board approved the broad outlines of a $4.6 billion preliminary budget for the 2026-27 school year — a spending plan built on…
Posted by Bob Young March 31, 2026
Trump Administration Kills $48.6 Million in CTE Grants Mid-Program, Leaving 19 Career-Connected High Schools in Limbo
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Trump Administration Kills $48.6 Million in CTE Grants Mid-Program, Leaving 19 Career-Connected High Schools in Limbo

Source: Education Week
Posted by Bob Young March 31, 2026
Washington Is Playing Chicken With CTE Funding — and States Are Already Feeling It hero
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Washington Is Playing Chicken With CTE Funding — and States Are Already Feeling It

Two Crises, One Bill, and a Handful of Problems President Donald Trump signed the FY2026 federal budget reconciliation bill into law in early 2026, enacting $79 billion in discretionary Department…
Posted by Bob Young March 30, 2026

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