Jackie Burke, executive director of the New Jersey Council of County Vocational-Technical Schools (NJCCVTS) has been named to ROI-NJ’s Power List: 2024 for Associations & Organizations.
The publication honored Burke and the NJCCVTS for “actively recruiting, teaching and training the next-generation workforce.”
View the full list of honorees in ROI-NJ, published Jan. 24, 2024.
Jackie Burke, executive director of the NJ Council of County Vocational-Technical Schools, discusses the value of a career-focused high school education for students headed to college or right into the workforce during an interview with Mark Bonamo on My9’s New Jersey Now.
Half of the 10 top-performing NJ schools are from county vocational-technical school districts. Part of these schools’ formula for success is high student engagement. They link both curricula and extracurricular opportunities to students’ college and career goals.
A groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of construction on the $23 million expansion of Career and Technical Education (CTE) facilities and a new auxiliary gymnasium was held on March 27 at Somerset County Vocational & Technical Schools (SCVTS).