In 2005, California created its
Career Technical Education (CTE) Pathways and
Workforce Development Program to align K-12
career technical education (CTE) with local
community colleges based on models consistent with the
California Community Colleges’ Economic Workforce
Development (EWD) Program. As more educators,
industry, parents, and policy makers recognized the
demographic, economic, and educational benefits of
revitalizing CTE, California increased funding for CTE
through SB 70 and SB 1133.
To date, California has invested roughly $140 million
in the CTE Pathways Initiative (SB 70 and SB 1133) for
728 projects in four years. These funds increased
students’ knowledge of and access to college and
careers; supported creation of new CTE courses;
enhanced existing courses to integrate CTE and core
subject areas; provided career exploration
opportunities for middle school students and job
shadowing, internships, and work-based learning for
older students; sponsored faculty externships and
professional development; and compensated coordinators
to network and build relationships with local
employers and industry leaders.
CTE Pathways Initiative (SB 70 and SB 1133) funds
provided opportunities for community colleges, K-12,
ROCP, adult education, industry members to work
together to build CTE programs in their local
communities. These funds address needs otherwise
unmet, fill gaps, jumpstart programs, and provide
human capital for connecting educators to local
business/industry leaders and building CTE
opportunities for more students.
CTE Central provides a resource for those interested
in implementing comprehensive CTE programs to access
information, resources, and tools in one location.
Many community college ICT related programs fit into
the CTE framework. Explore this site to learn more
about how you might acquire and use CTE funding to
improve ICT related programs!
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CTE in Action
profiles selected CTE programs and specifies their
sources of funding. |
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The
Resources section of CTE Central lists a
wide variety of CTE related reports, websites,
surveys and projects categorized by topic. |
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In the
Grantees section you can search for CTE grant
recipients by region, year awarded, industry
sector, and grant type. |
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Calendar contains a list of upcoming CTE
conferences and other events. |
