Big Win for CTE and STEM – Career and Technical Education Funding Increased! Thank You ACTE .

Career and Technical Education can cheer the latest budget. Thank You ACTE

Congress approved the funding bill, and with it   will receive a $75 million increase .

For those of us in CTE we can be excited to see an increase in Carl Perkins finding in years.  We can thank congress for the big save as the Trump Administration’s FY 2018 budget actually requested a 15 percent cut to the state grant program. I think we can all see this as a sign of the on going and growing support for CTE on Capitol Hill.

 

The funding bill shows a $3.9 billion increase in discretionary funding for the Department of Education, and a $192 million increase for discretionary funding for the Department of Labor. In addition to the Perkins increase, other notable increases include:

Congress is already working on FY 2019 funding. I hope you will join with me to continue to let our Members of Congress know we are grateful for their work to fund CTE, and to thank them specifically for this initial investment and our hope that this means that capitol hill will all keep up the momentum for increased CTE funding going forward.

The ACTE association and its advocacy work has done a great job, once again. But they need our help to keep CTE in the minds of congress.  Here are some things that you can do to help ACTE in their work to 

Big thanks again to the awesome work of The ACTE Association. But they can not do it all on their own.  Take a few moments to help them by following some of the suggestions above and engage your member of congress. Let them know that you care and CTE makes a difference.  Below are some stats you might want to remember. 

Thank you Congress  – Steve