Perkins Reauthorization Survey #2


  1. Please describe your ideal CTE system, in 100 words or less.


  1. If you had to narrow the following list to 3 purposes, which one would you delete?

    1. building on the efforts of States and localities to develop challenging academic standards
    2. promoting the development of services and activities that integrate academic, vocational, and technical instruction, and that link secondary and post-secondary vocational programs
    3. increasing State and local flexibility in providing services and activities designed to develop, implement, and improve vocational and technical education
    4. disseminating national research, and providing professional development and technical assistance that will improve vocational and technical education programs, services, and activities


  1. If you had to narrow the following list to 6 requirements, which one would you delete?

    1. Strengthens the academic, vocational, and technical skills of students participating in vocational and technical education programs, achieved by integrating core academic subjects into vocational and technical education programs through a coherent sequence of courses.
    2. Provides students with strong experience in and understanding of all aspects of an industry.
    3. Develops, improves, or expands the use of technology in vocational and technical education.
    4. Initiates, improves, expands, and modernizes quality vocational and technical education programs.
    5. Supports activities that prepare special populations, including single parents and displaced homemakers enrolled in CTE programs, for high skill, high wage, or high demand jobs.
    6. Provides relevant professional development programs to teachers, counselors, and administrators.
    7. Requires consortia of secondary and post-secondary agencies to collaborate on Career Pathways curriculum (Tech-Prep Education).


  1. Related comment(s) you would like me to share with ACTE's Perkins Re-Authorization Task Force.





Dale Gruis
Instructor
Collins-Maxwell MS/HS
IA