Advocacy

=Thanks to ADVOCATES for CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION!=

Career Tech for the first time will receive line item money for Operation and Maintenance (O & M). The final budget included $5 million for O & M which will equate to around $2,000.00 per CT program in the state. The Career Tech Initiative also remained in the budget at $2.257 million for our extended contracts, CTSO, etc... Unfortunately the bond money was not included in this years budget.

I would like to personally thank all of you who contacted your local leaders, State Senators and Representatives, Business and Industry partners and others. Without your support our efforts, adding a new line item in an already depleted education budget would have been impossible.

Now that all the hard work is over, it would be a great time to call your Senator and Representative. Please thank them for the additional funding to improve our CT classrooms and Labs. Make sure they know that this additional funding will help us prepare a more capable student to enter post secondary education or to enter the workforce with greater skills to find employment.