The president recently signed into law the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act. This bill updates the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, the primary federal law governing career and technical education, and provide more than $1 billion to fund school-based technical training programs.
Unfortunately, states are ill-positioned to maximize the potential of this law to train the next generation of the American workforce.
The above excerpt was originally published in Inside Sources.
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