Partnerships with Education: Getting Involved with Public Policy

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Partnerships with EducationGetting Involved
with Public Policy

• Presented by
• Thomas N. Applegate
• Senior Director, Business/Industry Initiatives
• Association for Career and Technical Education

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• Re-title my presentation
• Unnatural Acts

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• Part ner-ship
• A collaboration between two or more entities
  associated in some common interest

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• Collaboration
• An unnatural act between two or more
  non-consenting bureaucracies

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ACTE-Who We Are

• National association of career and technical
  education (CTE) professionals
• Only organization representing all aspects of CTE
• Membership includes instructors, administrators,
  counselors, support personnel from secondary and
  post secondary institutions
• 32,000 members

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ACTE-What We Do

• Three As
• Access to information
• Advocacy for the profession including but no
  limited to political advocacy
• Awareness of CTE and its importance to the
  economic and educational well being of our nation

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Why Career and Technical Education is Important
to the Energy Industry

• We train your future workers
• We teach technical skills
• We teach applied academics
• We teach problem solving, practical reasoning
  skill
• We teach work skills- dependability, reliability
• We train your existing workforce
• Upgrade skills
• Retrain workers

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Why CEWD Members are Important to Career and
Technical Education(from a policy perspective)

• Credibility in the political arena
• Carry policy issues to trade and political groups
• Provide critical feedback to our policy issues

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Major Legislation for CTE

• Perkins
• Only about 5 of total dollars spent on CTE but
  drives change and policy
• Tech Prep
• Academic and technical integration
• Connections between secondary and postsecondary
  education
• Links to business and industry

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Major Legislation for CTE (continued)

• Workforce Investment ACT (WIA)
• Infrastructure funding
• Training
• WIB board/Perkins
• Enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering and
  Mathematics (STEM) Education Act of 2008
• No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
• Teacher quality
• Time off task

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ACTE Issues Briefs

• The Issue
• Why CTE should be concerned/Involved
• CTEs role
• Conclusion/what should be done/what should CTE
  being doing
• Available free online at www.acteonline.org

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What should YOU do????

• Be involved with CTE-the future of your workforce
  depends upon it
• Link with your local/state CTE programs
• Be a Career and Technical Education advocate
• Become a National ACTE Associate member
• Attend ACTE National Policy Seminar
• March 9-11, 2009 Washington, DC

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Further Information

• Thomas N. Applegate, Senior Director Business and
  Industry Initiatives
• 512-797-7271
• tomgobucks_at_insight.rr.com
• www.acteonline.org

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• Questions????