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How PLTW’s STEM-to-CTE Pipeline Is Reshaping Career Readiness — and What Philadelphia Can Learn

When engineering students at Philadelphia's Swenson Arts and Technology High School open their PLTW lab kits each fall, they are not completing a textbook exercise. They are building the same…

Bob Young May 7, 2026

CTE News Legislative News National CTE News

Congress Finalizes FY26 Funding as OCTAE Rolls Out New Perkins V State Plan Guidance

A rare alignment of federal CTE and workforce funding streams gives state and local directors a narrow window to act. Congress passed a full-year FY2026 appropriations bill in late April,…

Bob Young May 4, 2026

Educational Resources

NCCER Credentials: What They Are, Who Developed Them, What They Cost, and Where They Lead

What NCCER Actually Is The National Center for Construction Education and Research — NCCER — was founded in 1996 by a consortium of major construction companies and industry associations. It…

Bob Young May 1, 2026

CTE News

CTE Funding Whiplash: Grants Canceled, Perkins Reauthorized — What Philadelphia Keeps

The News: A Good Month and a Bad Month for CTE, Simultaneously February 2026 was declared National Career and Technical Education Month by the U.S. Department of Education. The same…

Bob Young April 30, 2026

CTE News

Pennsylvania Rewires K–12 Career Readiness — Why Philly CTE Should Pay Attention

The News: Career Exploration Starts in Fifth Grade Now In spring 2026, Pennsylvania's education policy shifted in a way that hasn't gotten enough attention in Philadelphia. The Shapiro administration's CTE…

Bob Young April 28, 2026

Educational Resources

Station Rotation in the CTE Lab: Why Hands-On Differentiation Works

Hook: Your Lab Has Stations Already — Use Them Deliberately Walk into any CTE shop — electrical, culinary, health sciences, automotive — and you'll see natural work zones: the tool…

Bob Young April 27, 2026

Educational Resources

NCCER Certification: What It Is, Who Built It, What It Costs, and Where It Leads

If you teach construction trades in a CTE program, NCCER is the credential your students should leave with. Not as a supplement to something else—as the primary credential that tells…

Bob Young April 24, 2026

CTE News

FY26 CTE Funding Locked In + What It Means for Philadelphia Programs

Congress passed full-year FY26 funding. The Perkins V allocation survived. Pennsylvania's governor is directing new money toward career and technical education. And Philadelphia's CTE programs—the largest urban system in the…

Bob Young April 23, 2026

Educational Resources

CTE Meets AI: What Philadelphia Programs Need to Do Now Before the Skills Gap Widens

When HVAC students at a Pennsylvania career and technical center first encountered an AI-powered predictive analytics dashboard during a employer-sponsored lab demonstration, the reaction was immediate: this is what the…

Bob Young April 22, 2026

CTE News

Philadelphia CTE Grads Walk Straight Into Paychecks + Why the CTE Community Should Pay Attention

In May 2025, a cohort of Philadelphia high school seniors completed their CTE programs and did something that would have been unusual a decade ago: they walked off the graduation…

Bob Young April 21, 2026