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Pennsylvania now lets CTE students test for credentials before senior year

The $3.5 million headline is the easy story. On August 21, 2026, the Pennsylvania Department of Education announced a new round of PAsmart grants to 17 organizations, spreading money across…
Posted by Bob Young September 6, 2026
States Are Building the Governance Scaffolding for Youth Apprenticeship — and CTE Is the On-Ramp
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States Are Building the Governance Scaffolding for Youth Apprenticeship — and CTE Is the On-Ramp

Headline: Seven states rewrote youth apprenticeship governance in 2026, and CTE is the on-ramp For years, the story about youth apprenticeship has been told as a demand problem: employers want…
Posted by Bob Young August 30, 2026
Lehigh Carbon Community College Adds Aviation Management Degree as PA Builds the Full Aviation Workforce
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Lehigh Carbon Community College Adds Aviation Management Degree as PA Builds the Full Aviation Workforce

The gap nobody was talking about For a decade, the aviation workforce story has been told the same way: there aren't enough pilots, and there aren't enough mechanics. The shortage…
Posted by Bob Young August 23, 2026
First Federal Workforce Pell Program Approved: Iowa Central’s EMT Program Leads the Nation
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First Federal Workforce Pell Program Approved: Iowa Central’s EMT Program Leads the Nation

The headline that changed the conversation On August 4–6, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education approved its first Workforce Pell-eligible program: Iowa Central Community College's 14-week emergency medical technician (EMT)…
Posted by Bob Young August 9, 2026
House FY27 Bill Adds Perkins Funding, Cuts Adult Ed and WIOA Training
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House FY27 Bill Adds Perkins Funding, Cuts Adult Ed and WIOA Training

The House Appropriations Committee advanced its Fiscal Year 2027 Labor-HHS-Education spending bill along party lines last week, approving a $10 million increase for the Perkins CTE Basic State Grant —…
Posted by Bob Young August 2, 2026
Paid Screen Printing Apprenticeship Shows a Small but Serious CTE Model in Philadelphia
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Paid Screen Printing Apprenticeship Shows a Small but Serious CTE Model in Philadelphia

Philadelphia teenagers are earning stipends to learn hand screen printing at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, and the program deserves attention from career and technical education leaders for a simple reason: it treats creative production as real work.
Posted by Bob Young July 28, 2026
Shapiro Invests $3 Million to Triple Steamfitters Apprenticeship Enrollment in Philadelphia
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Shapiro Invests $3 Million to Triple Steamfitters Apprenticeship Enrollment in Philadelphia

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…
Posted by Bob Young July 22, 2026
PA Invests $4.1 Million to Connect High School Students to Careers, Not Just Diplomas
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PA Invests $4.1 Million to Connect High School Students to Careers, Not Just Diplomas

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…
Posted by Bob Young July 22, 2026
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Perkins Authority Moved to Labor Department; Congress Wants to Make It Permanent

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…
Posted by Bob Young July 19, 2026
DOL's 30-Day Apprenticeship Approvals Reshape Philadelphia's Trades Pipeline
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DOL’s 30-Day Apprenticeship Approvals Reshape Philadelphia’s Trades Pipeline

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…
Posted by Bob Young July 13, 2026

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