Happy CTE Month! We hope that you are enjoying this opportunity to recognize the classroom innovators in your community and build awareness about the benefits of CTE. We at ACTE headquarters have been busy working with our partners on Capitol Hill and education stakeholders nationwide to conduct our own CTE Month activities, including cohosting a congressional reception with our partners at Project Lead The Way and the Senate CTE Caucus.
However, we aren’t the only ones that have taken the opportunity to tell others about CTE. On Thursday, February 12, Congressmen Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA) and Jim Langevin (D-RI), co-chairs of the House CTE Caucus, took to the House floor to speak about CTE Month and promote the contributions of CTE programs nationwide.
“The CTE Caucus remains focused on ensuring that individuals have access to high quality career and technical education programs,” said Thompson. “Now more than ever our young people need assurances that the skills that they attain will lead to good paying, family sustaining jobs. CTE programming can make those assurances.”
Congressmen Thompson and Langevin have been dedicated partners with ACTE and its members through their work on the CTE Caucus, and have actively promoted CTE Month through floor statements in the past.
“Mr. Speaker, I’m pleased to join my good friend and colleague, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania in recognition of career and technical education month,” Langevin stated. “As co-chairs of the congressional CTE Caucus, we are absolutely committed to ensuring that every student has the ability to achieve his or her career goals.”
ACTE will continue to work with these and other Members of Congress to promote CTE’s benefits for students nationwide, both during CTE Month and year-round. Click here to learn more about how you can get involved in your own community!
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