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Pennsylvania doubles down on union apprenticeships as workforce demand surges When Steamfitters Local Union 420 trains its next cohort of apprentices in Philadelphia, they'll be working in an expanded facility…

Shapiro administration's Schools-to-Work program funds 17 projects bridging CTE labs and employer pipelines across Pennsylvania When Zimere Martin graduated from Susquehanna Township School District's Cadet Teaching Program, she didn't just…

For more than a century, career and technical education in the United States has lived at the U.S. Department of Education. On May 21, 2026, that quietly changed. According to…

When the principal of a Philadelphia career and technical education high school wants to launch a new pre-apprenticeship track with a local union, the bottleneck is rarely the curriculum. The…

When the welding booths at Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia light up for a new cohort of pre-apprentices each fall, the instructor is not just teaching a weld procedure.…

California has poured $300 million a year into career technical education since 2021 — the largest state CTE grant program in the country. Yet over the past five years, more…

A Los Angeles charter school's six-year-old summer program shows what happens when CTE pathways don't stop at the school year — they extend into paid, credentialed, union-connected summer training that…

How a landmark Bloomberg Philanthropies investment is turning Madison Park into a citywide launchpad for family-sustaining trades careers Boston just landed the kind of investment that CTE directors across the…

The Lead Pennsylvania just took one of the most consequential steps in years toward solving its skilled trades shortage. All 15 community colleges in the state, organized through the Pennsylvania…