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Philosophy and Background Shedding an ever more positive light on career and technical education is key to getting students excited about pursuing vocational and technical career paths. We at the Virginia Career Education Foundation have taken up the torch and begun blazing a trail towards a bright future for CTE. With so many great opportunities in the technical industries, it’s easy to understand why. At the Foundation, we aim to emphasize the fact that public school students can increase the likelihood of a successful career by beginning to explore their options as early as the middle school level. Further, we join in the consensus that these options should include in-depth information about technical careers so that students can have as many viable, sound choices available to them as possible. Those who are most knowledgeable about CTE unanimously agree that the main reason more students do not take advantage of CTE courses is the general lack of understanding of the many benefits and growth opportunities that CTE often provides. The Foundation believes that by shedding a new, forward-focusing light on CTE, we can aid educators and guidance counselors in their efforts to communicate the desirability of CTE to students in Virginia’s public schools. We contend that with the proper tools and materials, public school students will come to better appreciate the benefits of CTE, and that more of them will come to embrace these options as exciting, challenging, and worthwhile. Through active support, and through successful public-private partnerships, our teachers and counselors can gain better access to the tools and materials they need in order to create ever-greater awareness of CTE among the student population. For these reasons, in September, 2002 Governor
Mark R. Warner launched
the Virginia Career Education Foundation, a non-profit foundation that
seeks innovative ways to promote career and technical education in public
schools throughout Virginia. The Foundation recognizes the serious need
for highly skilled technical workers in Virginia, and has adopted the
supporting and funding of initiatives that promote career and technical
programs as its mission.
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