by Career Tech | Nov 18, 2020 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools
Read this article as it originally appeared November 16, 2020 in ROI-NJ. Erika Deleon graduated in 2019 from Essex County Newark Tech High School, where she was exposed to all of the construction trades, but it was welding that really sparked her interest. Deleon...
by Career Tech | Nov 11, 2020 | Career Programs, Schools
JERSEY CITY – A proposal for a new STEM high school to be operated by Hudson County Schools of Technology is expected to be built as part of an agreement announced today between Jersey City, Liberty Science Center and Hudson County. Liberty Science High School would...
by Career Tech | Nov 10, 2020 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools, Student Achievements
Read this op-ed as it originally appeared Oct. 29, 2020 on nj.com. By Frederick Keating, Michael Dicken and Dina Rossi Higher education, county vocational-technical schools and businesses are “stacking the deck” in Gloucester and Cumberland counties thanks to an...
by Career Tech | Nov 2, 2020 | Career and Technical Education
Jared Redmond graduated from the Gloucester County Institute of Technology engineering program in June, but he spent his senior year on the campus of Rowan College of South Jersey. By the time he finished high school, he had 58 college credits. He just started his...
by Career Tech | Oct 29, 2020 | Career and Technical Education
The New Jersey Council of County Vocational-Technical Schools presented its annual CTE Leadership Award to Linda Eno, in recognition of her extraordinary leadership and support for career and technical education as a school principal and state policy leader. Since...
by Career Tech | Oct 15, 2020 | Career Programs, Student Achievements
An automotive technology teacher from Scotch Plains has been named a winner of the 2020 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence, receiving $50,000 as part of $1 million awarded to 18 trades teachers nationwide today. Michael Shephard, who...
by Career Tech | Oct 14, 2020 | Career and Technical Education
TRENTON – The Murphy Administration announced today the availability of grant applications for school security, water infrastructure improvements, and enhancement of career and technical education in county vocational-technical school districts and county colleges in...
by Career Tech | Oct 12, 2020 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools
Read this article as it originally appeared Oct. 5, 2020 in ROI-NJ The half-dozen sheds framed with two-by-fours sit unfinished in Charles Lachner’s construction technology classroom, a junior-year project abandoned after the coronavirus shuttered Hunterdon County...
by Career Tech | Sep 26, 2020 | Career Programs, Schools
Read this op-ed as it originally appeared on nj.com By Todd Bonsall Each generation strives to make its mark. As an educator, I am especially encouraged by the passion and determination of today’s youth to be part of something greater than themselves. This drive was...
by Career Tech | Sep 24, 2020 | Schools, Student Achievements
Read this article as it originally appeared on nj.com. County Prep High School in Jersey City has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as one a National Blue Ribbon School for 2020, USDOE officials announced Thursday. The school, part of the Hudson...
