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Members urge stronger federal support for career and technical education
Summary
Members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education urged larger federal investments in career and technical education, citing high enrollment, improved graduation rates and the need to fund Perkins state grants and CTE innovation grants.
Members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education used a members' day hearing to press for larger federal funding for career and technical education programs, including support for the Carl D. Perkins state grant program and innovation grants.
Rep. Glenn Thompson, co-chair of the bipartisan House Career and Technical Education Caucus, told the subcommittee that CTE programs "work to develop America's most valuable resource, its people," and urged the…
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