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Pennsylvania’s 2025–26 CTE Overhaul Starts in Fifth Grade and Doesn’t Stop Until Students Have Credentials
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Pennsylvania’s 2025–26 CTE Overhaul Starts in Fifth Grade and Doesn’t Stop Until Students Have Credentials

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…
Posted by Bob Young April 5, 2026
PDE Releases Statewide Catalog of Approved CTE Industry Credentials
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PDE Releases Statewide Catalog of Approved CTE Industry Credentials

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…
Posted by Bob Young April 4, 2026
IES Launches Pennsylvania Study on CTE Credentials and Postsecondary Outcomes
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IES Launches Pennsylvania Study on CTE Credentials and Postsecondary Outcomes

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…
Posted by Bob Young April 4, 2026
Pennsylvania Independence Act Could Reshape CTE Center Governance Statewide
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Pennsylvania Independence Act Could Reshape CTE Center Governance Statewide

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…
Posted by Bob Young April 3, 2026
Philadelphia Targets 8,000 Youth Jobs Through C2L-PHL Summer 2026
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Philadelphia Targets 8,000 Youth Jobs Through C2L-PHL Summer 2026

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…
Posted by Bob Young April 3, 2026
Diverse high school students in a Pennsylvania CTE workshop learning precision welding and fabrication under instructor guidance, with career preparation tools and equipment in the background.
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$4.1 Million in New Grants Extends Pennsylvania’s Schools-to-Work Reach to 52 Programs and 2,295 Students — And This Round Funds Something New

For the first time, a Pennsylvania Schools-to-Work grant is being used to build a pre-apprenticeship pathway into teaching. Whether that model spreads tells us something about how flexible these programs…
Posted by Bob Young April 2, 2026
A spacious union apprenticeship training facility interior with multiple welding and pipefitting stations, HVAC training rigs, and apprentices working under structured instruction, representing modern skilled trades education infrastructure.
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Governor Shapiro Commits $8 Million to Philadelphia Steamfitters Training Center, With Eye on Tripling Apprenticeship Rolls

Philadelphia's Steamfitters Local 420 is about to get significantly larger — and the implications for the city's CTE-to-apprenticeship pipeline are significant, though not automatic. --- What Happened Governor Josh Shapiro…
Posted by Bob Young April 2, 2026
Two Years In, Philadelphia's Workforce Hub Is Betting on Apprenticeship — And Asking Whether Young CTE Students Are Really Part of the Plan hero
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Two Years In, Philadelphia’s Workforce Hub Is Betting on Apprenticeship — And Asking Whether Young CTE Students Are Really Part of the Plan

Philadelphia's federally designated Workforce Hub has spent two years scaling employer partnerships and registered apprenticeship enrollment with approximately $30 million in Good Jobs Challenge funding. With a 10% enrollment growth…
Posted by Bob Young April 1, 2026
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Target the CTE-to-Apprenticeship Gap With New Pre-Apprenticeship Legislation hero
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Pennsylvania Lawmakers Target the CTE-to-Apprenticeship Gap With New Pre-Apprenticeship Legislation

A co-sponsorship memo circulating in the Pennsylvania House proposes legislation that would for the first time create a statutory bridge between career and technical center instruction and registered apprenticeship entry…
Posted by Bob Young April 1, 2026
Philadelphia's $4.6B Budget Deficit Threatens to Hollow Out CTE Programs at the Worst Possible Time hero
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Philadelphia’s $4.6B Budget Deficit Threatens to Hollow Out CTE Programs at the Worst Possible Time

On Thursday, March 26, 2026, the Philadelphia School Board approved the broad outlines of a $4.6 billion preliminary budget for the 2026-27 school year — a spending plan built on…
Posted by Bob Young March 31, 2026

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