Breaking Down Silos: How CTE Programs Can Connect Learning to Careers
The Hook Walk into most high schools and you will find two parallel universes: the academic wing and the CTE wing. Students move between them, but the systems rarely connect.…
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Iowa Shows What Scale Looks Like: 70% of High Schoolers Now in CTE
The Lead Nearly 70% of Iowa high school students — more than 107,000 teenagers — participated in career and technical education during the 2024-25 school year, according to a new…
Project-Based Blended Learning for CTE: A Framework You Can Deploy Monday Morning
How to combine independent digital modules with collaborative hands-on lab work — without sacrificing technical rigor or safety. CTE instructors face a tension that doesn't exist in most academic classrooms:…
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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,…
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Shapiro Administration’s $10.35 Million PAsmart Grant Expands CTE Access Across Pennsylvania
Governor Josh Shapiro wants Pennsylvania to graduate students who can do something specific. On April 10, the Shapiro administration announced $10.35 million in PAsmart Advancing Grants for Career and Technical…
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Philadelphia Schools Push Career Credentials to Meet Graduation Rules — Raising Quality Questions
Pennsylvania's Class of 2026 can check a box. That box — an industry-recognized credential — is one of several pathways students may use to satisfy the state's graduation requirements instead…
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The Digital Resume Is Replacing the Four-Year Degree
How Stacked CTE Credentials Are Winning the Labor Market Argument The credential conversation in CTE has undergone a fundamental shift. Five years ago, the question was whether industry certifications were…
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$209 Million and Counting
What Federal CTE Investment Actually Buys in 2026 — and What It Doesn't When Congress passed full-year FY2026 funding with Perkins V fully funded at $209 million, the announcement landed…
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The Test That Actually Teaches
How Adaptive Assessment Is Rewriting CTE's Accountability Story For years, CTE assessment meant one of two things: a multiple-choice final exam designed more for administrative convenience than skill validation, or…
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Philadelphia’s CTE Teacher Crisis
2,000 Seats, Not Enough Instructors — and One City's Bold Pipeline Fix Philadelphia is projecting 2,000 teacher vacancies for the 2026–27 school year. Across all subjects, in every neighborhood, in…