Save CTE Funding

Students need CTE--gives them a great start & helps them figure out their calling.

I am a CTE director and taught CTE for 27 years. I have seen first hand the benefits that these programs have for kids. Cutting these programs would be ludicrous.

CTE programs help reduce drop out rates in our rural community. It's so much more than just preparing students for the work force.

I was a CTE student my junior and senior years of high school. My junior year was in a Medical Professions class, and my senior year was for a Certified Nursing Assistant class. CTE opens up so many opportunities for high school students and jump starts them on their careers by the time they graduate. CTE is very important!!

My grandson has benefited greatly through his involvement in this program. Through the program's activities, he has gained confidence, learned independence, developed his leadership skills, become comfortable with public speaking, etc. He has had the opportunity to travel places and see things that he would not have been able to otherwise. The loss of funding for this program will be such a loss for students in our high schools. Please consider this carefully.

Count me in as a supporter of Arizona Career Technical Education. Governor Ducey, please do not cut funding to this vital program.

I think that this kind of education is essential for our kids and should definitely be appropriately funded. This is important for some who are those going on to college and those who need a technical education to prepare them for a career without college or earn the money so they can go to college. Please maintain this funding. It is very important to our economy and the welfare of our High School grads.

Support!!!

Joint Techinical Education (JTED)/Career Technical Education (CTE) funding are much needed to provide Employability Skills, Dual Enrollment (college credits) offered to our students and viable Industry Certification. The CTE Programs prepare students for the Workforce and/or pursue Postsecondary Education. Please do not cut funding for 2017. CTE prevents students from dropping out of school and performs exceptionally well on State Assessments,

Any further cuts to Arizona'salready GROSSLY under-funded education system are dangerously short-sighted and will damage our state's education system and economy for years to come. The only things that should be cut are the salaries & benefits of our elected state officials... they are destroying our state!!

Please dont take away this funding. My daughter and son in law are teachers on the Navajo reservation and I know firsthand how much these programs help these young students and how badly they are needed. Please dont discontinue funding.

Have a home on Dove mountain and support education

Our students need the opportunities that CTE provides to our Arizona young people to graduate with employability to start a productive life in our great state. Please keep funding our CTE programs.

Do NOT cut $29M from JTED/CTE programs in 2016, or ever. They deserve an increase not a cut!!!

Save CTE

CTE funding is critical for ensuring a strong pipeline of career-ready students to meet the needs of Arizona businesses. This funding has the support of both the education and business communities and should be a high priority for the Arizona legislature.

These programs are very important to Arizona's communities all around the state.

CTE enables students to complete the reality of hands on work not available on-line.Knowledge is in the mind and hands of the creators of our future.

Please reinstate funding for these programs that truly work. We need trained people in the workforce.

I am CTE