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State education officials and students spotlight growth in career technical education and industry-aligned standards
Summary
Joshua Whitworth of the State Board of Education presented CTE enrollment growth, industry-aligned standard-setting and postsecondary pathways to the House Education Committee; student leaders from BPA and SkillsUSA described personal benefits and leadership development.
Joshua Whitworth, executive director for the State Board of Education and interim administrator for the Division of Career Technical Education, briefed the House Education Committee on the state of career technical education (CTE) and the division's efforts to align programs with industry needs.
"The mission of career technical education is to prioritize youth and adults for high skill in demand careers," Whitworth told the committee, describing a system that spans middle and high school CTE courses, technical colleges and workforce training centers. He said roughly 72,000 secondary students are enrolled in CTE (about 71% of high school students taking at least one CTE course) in a statewide secondary population "a little over 300,000" and…
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