Save CTE Funding

Education is critical to our lives, let's straighten out our priorities #

Please reinstate JTED funding so we can continue to produce career and college ready students for AZ's future..

Please reinstate funding for JTEDs for the 2016-17 school year. This needs to be done first thing in January, since registration for next year is in February and principals need to finalize which classes will be offered. Please make this a priority!!

My son wouldn't be the man he is today without this program! Through this program he found interests he never knew he had.

CTE classes are essential to student learning! These classes teach career skills. It will be a huge mistake if CTE funding is cut!

CTE programs are employability skills, leadership skills, applied math, technical reading and writing, reasons to stay in school, paths into success in higher education, and so much more. As a former English teacher, I am confident that I am better serving students as a CTE teacher. Save this funding.

Thank you!

We have started a Career and Technical Education program for Natural Resource Management at Santa Rita High School in Tucson. Our goal is to train high school students with the skill set necessary to enter into the field of Natural Resource Management and Conservation and continue their education in at the University level. In addition, we train students in aquaponics and greenhouse management for sustainable agricultural practices. The skills students learn in these classes are employability skills in the field of natural resource management. They will allow students to get internships at state agencies, universities and private employers, eventually leading to enrollment in higher education programs or employment in any number of industries related to agriculture and natural resources. Fisheries management is a $1.47 Billion industry in AZ alone. Trout fishing in AZ is worth $520 million in revenue. As you know, the program at Santa Rita High School is one of the only programs in AZ to be doing Trout in the Classroom providing students with hands on experience and a skill set that can be directly applied within this industry. In August of 2011 the Seattle Times reported that Birding in Arizona is a $1.2 billion industry for Arizona. Without proper habitat, birds do not thrive. Students in the Santa Rita Natural Resources program learn how birds are indicators of habitat health and they learn how to monitor and restore critical habitat functions to support this valuable resource for the state. Finally, with over 1/2 the Arizona Agriculture industry (recently valued at $3.7 Billion) being generated by crops, in the face of climate change and drought, fundamental changes to crop selection and agricultural practices will be necessary. Students at Santa Rita High School's CTE Natural Resources program are exposed to sustainable aquaponic and hydroponic agricultural systems on a daily basis and manage two greenhouses using these methods to grow cro

Once again we look to cut where it hurts the most! This is the reason my children don't want to raise their families in AZ!

Once again Arizona is trying to ax programs to discourage kids from following their hearts into careers that we, the country, needs. Please keep these programs to encourage students to stay in school.

I have two boys were benefiting from this program which is gave him an education and keep them in school please don't kill a program that is so supportive of our youth

Keep the funding!

Save CTE funding. The kids need to learn job skills to work after high school.

These programs need to stay!

We need more funding for our schools, not less.

CTE is much too important to let die. Keep it alive

I vote Yes, this is important.

I vote YES

Keep these important programs for kids

Please don't cut the funding, CTE is important component of education.