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Oregon City highlights new CTE pathways, plumbing pre‑apprenticeship and FFA chapter
Summary
District CTE leaders told the school board the district is expanding career-technical education with a plumbing pre‑apprenticeship, new FFA chapter, robotics outreach and college partnerships to pipeline students into regional trades and postsecondary programs.
Oregon City School District on Sept. 8 outlined an expansion of career and technical education across its three high schools, including a district‑run plumbing pre‑apprenticeship, a newly chartered FFA chapter and expanded robotics and dual‑credit partnerships.
The district’s CTE administrator, Mike Stead, said the plumbing program—part of a Clackamas County youth trades initiative—will give students a preferred entry pathway into the Area 1 Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 290 apprenticeship after students complete a sequence of in‑school coursework and certifications. "Students starting this year can graduate working with the area plumbers and pipefitters to then go preferred into that apprenticeship program," Stead said.
Stead told the board the pre‑apprenticeship requires students to complete Metals 1 and 2 credits, an additional…
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