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May 11, 2022
Strengthening Career and Technical Education (CTE) Partnerships for Secondary Youth with Disabilities
The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) provides unprecedented opportunity and accountability to design Career Technical Education (CTE) systems for each learner to feel welcome and supported in their journey to career success.
Learners with disabilities stand to strongly benefit from participation in CTE when programs are designed to support their needs. Maximizing these outcomes requires states to elevate one-time touchpoints with stakeholders supporting learners with disabilities into strategic cross-sector partnerships.
Advance CTE partnered with University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School on the new resource, Advancing Employment for Secondary Learners with Disabilities through CTE Policy and Practice, which provides a policy landscape of state-level efforts to support secondary learners with disabilities in CTE programs based on a national survey of state directors.
While the study reveals significant challenges to harnessing data, resources and relationships to fully support learners with disabilities, it also reveals state CTE leaders are committed to overcoming these challenges. Eighty-four percent of State CTE Directors report planning to use opportunities afforded by Perkins V to support access and success for learners with disabilities.
View the report and additional resources on the Advance CTE website.
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