Some Montgomery County youth say the county school system should offer more opportunities for "Career and Technology Education" and needs to advertise existing programs so people know they exist.
The youth — seven high-school and college students who sit on the county’s Commission on Children and Youth — inspired the commission to send a letter with the recommendations to Board of Education President Christopher Barclay and Superintendent Joshua Starr, according to commission Chair Vicki Stearn.
Non-college bound high-school students are often overlooked, explained Stearn. Programs that do offer opportunities for technical education — like that at Thomas Edison High School — are not well advertised.
“The young people felt most strongly about the marketing and advertising piece," said Stearn, explaining that the students said they didn't know technical-education programs existed despite having just come out of the school system...
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/education/2011/07/montco-needs-more-technical-education-says-commission#ixzz1RSl7XDWI
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