Saturday, March 12, 2005
National Education Association
ACT NOW to Save Technical Education Program
Urge Your Representative to Save Technical Training Program
Barring a concerted grassroots push to save the program that helps prepare high school students for high-demand, high-skill technical jobs, the House Education Committee, when it considers H.R. 4496 on Wednesday, March 9, could move to eliminate the Perkins Tech Prep program. The program equips high school students for a postsecondary education or to pursue postsecondary technical careers.
NEA opposes folding Tech Prep into a larger Vocational Education program, thereby effectively eliminating funding for this critical program. Preserving Tech Prep as a stand-alone program is critical to the continued improvement and effectiveness of career and technical education for today's students.
NEA is seeking an amendment to H.R. 4496 by John Tierney (D-MA) and Ron Kind (D-WI) to retain the program's separate funding source. Meanwhile, your Representative needs to hear from you now if we are to protect this career education pathway for students who do not attend traditional colleges.
5-Minute Activist -- ACT NOW
Urge your Member of Congress, especially the Republican members of the House Education and Workforce Committee, to preserve the Perkins Tech Prep program.
Urge Your Representative to Save Technical Training Program
Barring a concerted grassroots push to save the program that helps prepare high school students for high-demand, high-skill technical jobs, the House Education Committee, when it considers H.R. 4496 on Wednesday, March 9, could move to eliminate the Perkins Tech Prep program. The program equips high school students for a postsecondary education or to pursue postsecondary technical careers.
NEA opposes folding Tech Prep into a larger Vocational Education program, thereby effectively eliminating funding for this critical program. Preserving Tech Prep as a stand-alone program is critical to the continued improvement and effectiveness of career and technical education for today's students.
NEA is seeking an amendment to H.R. 4496 by John Tierney (D-MA) and Ron Kind (D-WI) to retain the program's separate funding source. Meanwhile, your Representative needs to hear from you now if we are to protect this career education pathway for students who do not attend traditional colleges.
5-Minute Activist -- ACT NOW
Urge your Member of Congress, especially the Republican members of the House Education and Workforce Committee, to preserve the Perkins Tech Prep program.
