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Perkins grant cuts would curtail career-technical programs, advocates warn
Summary
County vocational directors and the New Jersey Council for Career, Vocational and Technical Schools told the legislature that Perkins funding supports equipment, curriculum and staff for career-technical education and that losing those dollars would limit student pathways into the workforce.
Officials who oversee career and technical education (CTE) told the Joint Committee on the Public Schools that the federal Perkins grant is central to maintaining up-to-date CTE programs and industry partnerships.
Jacqueline Burke, executive director of the New Jersey Council for Career, Vocational and Technical Schools, said nationally Congress appropriates roughly $1.4 billion in Perkins state formula…
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