Carl D. Perkins: Career and Technical Education Act
The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act
Every year we look forward to walking into our tech centers. We look forward to using the brand new equipment. Thousand dollar Macintosh computers lined up in perfect rows. But rarely do we wonder (or appreciate) where these new things come from. All of the tools we need are funded by an act that was passed in 2006 called the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. This funds a vast majority of the secondary and postsecondary career and technical education programs, and is vital to the development of ourselves as the next generation of workers in todays society.
On August 12, 2006, President George W Bush signed into law the reauthorization of the Act of 1998. Congress in late July, 2006, passed the new law, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006, almost unanimously.
The new law includes three major areas of revision:
1) Using the term "career and technical education" instead of "vocational education"
2) Maintaining the Tech Prep program as a separate federal funding stream within the legislation
3) Maintaining state administrative funding at 5 percent of a state’s allocation.
All of the study programs are “industry ready and industry approved”. For example, at TulsaTech in the Pre Engineering Academy, all of the curriculum that is being taught, is exactly what is expected coming fresh out of a Pre Engineering course. This is insuring that the businesses that are hiring aren’t going back and reteaching and retraining the newcomers. If the Perkins funding wasn’t available we would in reality be backtracking in the business and workplace world. This also insure that our training programs are updated with their information.
The Carl Perkins Act was created in 1984 and has since been amended 3 times. Originally the goal of the Perkins funding was to expand, improve, modernize, and develop quality vocational education programs to meet the needs of the
Every year we look forward to walking into our tech centers. We look forward to using the brand new equipment. Thousand dollar Macintosh computers lined up in perfect rows. But rarely do we wonder (or appreciate) where these new things come from. All of the tools we need are funded by an act that was passed in 2006 called the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. This funds a vast majority of the secondary and postsecondary career and technical education programs, and is vital to the development of ourselves as the next generation of workers in todays society.
On August 12, 2006, President George W Bush signed into law the reauthorization of the Act of 1998. Congress in late July, 2006, passed the new law, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006, almost unanimously.
The new law includes three major areas of revision:
1) Using the term "career and technical education" instead of "vocational education"
2) Maintaining the Tech Prep program as a separate federal funding stream within the legislation
3) Maintaining state administrative funding at 5 percent of a state’s allocation.
All of the study programs are “industry ready and industry approved”. For example, at TulsaTech in the Pre Engineering Academy, all of the curriculum that is being taught, is exactly what is expected coming fresh out of a Pre Engineering course. This is insuring that the businesses that are hiring aren’t going back and reteaching and retraining the newcomers. If the Perkins funding wasn’t available we would in reality be backtracking in the business and workplace world. This also insure that our training programs are updated with their information.
The Carl Perkins Act was created in 1984 and has since been amended 3 times. Originally the goal of the Perkins funding was to expand, improve, modernize, and develop quality vocational education programs to meet the needs of the