During Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month, Mercer County Technical Schools’ podcast, The MCTS Experience, featured an interview with New Jersey Council of County Vocational-Technical Schools (NJCCVTS) Executive Director Jackie Burke. Listen to Burke provide an overview of the Council’s role to support New Jersey’s county vocational-technical schools. She also highlights recent stats to provide an overview of the CTE experience offered by the schools and the impact of a career-focused education on students’ college and career achievements. Check out the interview!
Camden Student, in the U.S. for just nine years, gets full ride to MIT (TAPinto Camden)
When 17-year-old Eric Mora Jimenez arrived in the United States in 2016 from his native Dominican Republic, he spoke little English and enrolled in a fourth-grade ESL course in the Camden City School District. Jimenez, who still lives in the city, will graduate in June with a 4.0 grade-point average at the Gloucester Township campus of Camden County Technical Schools and pick up an associate’s degree he earned at Camden County College while in high school.