National CTE News

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Source: Education Week

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…

The FY2026 federal appropriations bill is signed, and the Association for Career and Technical Education has finished tallying what it means for CTE on the ground: 159 CTE-related projects across…

From selective access to systemwide pathways: what Ohio is actually changing Willoughby-Eastlake City School District’s move toward a comprehensive, in-district CTE model is significant because it shifts CTE from a…

--- A Legislative Victory for Career Education In a significant demonstration of bipartisan commitment to workforce development, Congress has approved a Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations package that allocates over $209…