California Career Technical Education

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California Career Technical Education

• Senate Education Hearing
• January 18, 2006
• Dr. Patrick Ainsworth, Assistant
  Superintendent and Director
• Secondary, Postsecondary, and Adult
  Leadership Division

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Presentation Objectives

• Describe CTE in California
• Answer Questions
• Identify Key Issues and Opportunities

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Looking Back

• Beginning in 1917 the federal government funded
  voc. ed. to be a separate track
• California Board of Education becomes the Board
  responsible for Vocational Education
• Expansion occurred from the 1930s - 1970s
• Polytechnic high schools were formed by some
  districts during the 1920s - 1950s
• Five subject matter areas evolved Agriculture,
  Trade and Industrial, Home Economics, Health, and
  Business

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Looking Back

• 1968 - Regional Occupational Centers and Programs
  were initiated
• Flurry of state legislation during the 1970s
• State Department of Education Voc. Ed. staff
  140
• 1978 - Prop 13 - Property tax reform
• 1983 - SB 813 Hughes-Hart Education Reform Act
  renewed interest and emphasis on academics and
  college preparatory programs
• Huge decline in vocational offerings

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Looking Back

• 1988 - First California Partnership Academy
  grants
• Carl D. Perkins Act of 1990 declared the need to
  integrate vocational education and academic
  curricula
• SCANS Commission 1991-1992 published document on
  the skills and knowledge that all students need
  to acquire
• 1992 - CTE standards required by the Legislature

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Looking Back

• 1995 - Challenge Standards developed
• 1996 - School-to-Career grant to California
• Carl D. Perkins Act 1998 focuses on academic and
  career performance, local control, and student
  outcomes
• Voc. Ed. enrollments remained flat over 1990s
• 2000 Voc Ed changed to Career Technical Education
• 2002 CTE Standards legislation passed

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California Education Code

• Each school district shall offer
• a course of study fulfilling the requirements
  for admission to the California public
  institutions of postsecondary education
• a course of study that provides the opportunity
  for those pupils to attain entry-level employment
  skills in business and industry (Section 51228,
  1983)

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California Education Code

• The governing Board shall prescribe separate
  courses of study including, but not limited to, a
  course of study to prepare prospective pupils for
  admission to state colleges and universities, and
  a course of study for career technical training.
  (Section 51224, 1977)

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California Education Code

• Districts are encouraged to provide all students
  with a rigorous academic curriculum that
  integrates academic and career skills,
  incorporates applied learning in all disciplines,
  and prepares all pupils for high school
  graduation and career entry. (SB 1934, Section
  51228, 2002)

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California Education Code

• The Governing Board shall adopt alternative means
  for pupils to complete the prescribed course of
  study, which may include practical demonstration
  of skills and competencies, supervised work
  experience, high school CTE, ROCP courses,
  interdisciplinary study, independent study, and
  credit earned at a postsecondary institution.
• (Section 51225.3 b, 1985)

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Current Status of CTE

• 914,568 secondary students enrolled 2004-05
• 213,860 adult students enrolled in ROCP and Adult
  Education CTE courses
• 84 of Career Technical Education students taking
  a sequence of courses graduated
• Enrollments in high school CTE courses declined
  15 from 1997-98 to 2004-05
• Highest enrollment areas include Business
  Public Services Information Technology
  Engineering and Arts, Media Entertainment
• A-G approved CTE courses 4,024

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Current Status - Funding

• ROCP 454 million (apportionment)
• Adult Vocational 80.5 million (apportionment)
• Partnership Academies 23.5 million
• Apprenticeship 18 million
• CalWORKs 10 million
• Ag Incentive Grants 4.71 million
• Workforce Investment .5 million
• AB 8 Student Org. .5 million

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Current Status - ROCP

• ROCP Funding - 454 million
• ROCP enrollments 497,000
• 70 Secondary, 30 Adults
• Enrollment/ADA is capped
• Ages 16 years or Grade 11 are eligible
• All programs required to have business and
  industry advisory committee review and curriculum
  validation
• Programs are designed to be flexible to meet
  changing local labor market conditions
• Legislated Mission Prepare students for
  employment, to enter advanced training, or
  upgrade existing worker skills

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Carl D. Perkins

• Funding 140.3 million
• Basic Grant 128.9 million
• Tech Prep 11.3 million
• 85 of the basic grant is allocated to local
  secondary and postsecondary education agencies by
  formula
• Approximately 44 to secondary, 56 to
  postsecondary (Community Colleges, ROCP, and
  Adult Education)

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Carl D. Perkins

• Administration 5
• Statewide leadership 9
• State Institutions 1
• Purposes - Improve student achievement, prepare
  students for postsecondary education, and foster
  further learning and careers
• 1998 Act Accountability for outcomes, in
  exchange for local decision-making

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Historical Dilemma

• Secondary education in the
• United States was designed
• to separate
• Academic and Vocational
• Head from hand
• Knowing from doing
• Applied from the abstract
• Education from training
• Berryman, Sue E., and Thomas R. Bailey. 1992

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CTE Standards and Frameworks

• AB 1412 Wright - Mandated the establishment of
  CTE standards
• SB 1934 McPherson - Mandated the development and
  adoption of a CTE curriculum framework
• Recognized the importance of CTE within K-12
  system
• Requires that CTE programs are linked to current
  and future economy
• Standards adopted May 2005

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Laws Intend that CTE shall improve conditions for
students and the economy
CTE Standards and Frameworks

• Education
• Productive and self sufficient students
• Postsecondary education
• Engagement in school
• Academic skills
• Technical skills
• Career management
• Quality of life

• Economy
• Skilled available workforce
• Increased productivity
• Improved economy
• Less public assistance
• Career ladders
• Innovation
• Better communities

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CTE Credentialed Teachers

• Single Subject Candidates 2005-06
• Agriculture Education - 64 Candidates,
• 100 openings
• Business Education - 20-25 Candidates
• Industrial Tech. Ed. - 25 Candidates
• Home Economics - 10 Candidates
• Health Occupations - 0 Candidates

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Designated Subjects Credential

• Primarily used by ROCP
• Verification, by previous employer, of five years
  of work experience, directly related to each
  subject to be named on the credential
• Verification of a high school diploma or the
  equivalent
• Passage of the CBEST exam or equivalent
• Completion of course work during the first five
  years of employment

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NCLB Highly QualifiedCTE Teacher

• CTE teachers are exempt from the NCLB Highly
  Qualified Teacher provision unless their CTE
  courses meet an academic graduation requirement.
• Requirements (a) Bachelor's degree (b)
  California Credential or an Intern Credential or
  Certificate for no more than three years (c) Can
  demonstrate core academic subject matter
  competence in the academic area they are teaching
  within will be able to utilize the HOUSSE
  option.
• All "New CTE Teachers" credentialed on or after
  July 1, 2002 will not be able to utilize the
  HOUSSE option.

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Issues and Challenges

• Role of CTE in secondary education
• Interaction between CTE and Academics
• Tradition vs. Innovation
• General vs. Specific
• New Federal Directions
• Education standards or Industry standards
• Needs of Students vs. Needs of Business

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OpportunitiesBuild on Success

• Californias 290 Partnership Academies
• Smaller Learning Communities
• Specialized Secondary Programs
• Thematic High Schools
• Middle College and Early College High School
• Charter Schools

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OpportunitiesBuild on Success

• Improve and expand the ROCP system
• Increase the supply of fully qualified CTE
  Instructors
• Develop measurements of CTE success
• Require course sequences and linkages with post
  secondary programs
• Provide equipment funding
• Provide dedicated CTE funding for alternative
  education schools