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To maintain Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs that meet current occupational needs, CTE educators rely heavily on advice from business and industry. An important step in establishing, maintaining, or up-grading an existing CTE cluster/pathway is the organization of a local Advisory Committee.
An Advisory Committee is a group of persons outside the education profession, comprised of representative lay-people, recognized and respected in their own fields of work who advise CTE educators, administrators, and local board of education members regarding clusters/pathways, based on the employment needs of the community, state, regional, national, and international marketplace. The general functions are to act in an advisory capacity for the development and operation of the CTE cluster/pathway. An Advisory Committee can assist in answering …
Advisory Committees offer many services:
2020 Advisory Committee Guidance Handbook (PDF) Creating a Quality Pathway Rubric II (PDF)
The purpose of the Kansas Advisory Committee for Career and Technical Education (KACCTE) is to provide business and industry a unified voice to advocate and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for Career and Technical Education to, including but not limited to, the Kansas State Department of Education, the Kansas Postsecondary Technical Education Authority, the State Workforce Board and the Kansas Board of Regents.
The Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (OEWS) program provides annual employment and wage estimates by occupation. Data is collected through a semi-annual survey conducted by the Kansas Department of Labor (KDOL) in partnership with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS calculates employment and wage estimates for each of the states, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and Balance-of-State areas within each state. To better meet the needs of local users, KDOL’s Labor Market Information Services (LMIS) division produces employment and wage estimates for geographic areas not produced by the BLS; these include Local Workforce Investment Areas, projection regions, and counties. Due to confidentiality and quality criteria, LMIS cannot produce estimates for every occupation in every geographic area. State created areas are not validated by BLS, and therefore, are not official BLS data series. However, the LMIS staff feels that they provide additional information that is useful to the users of Kansas data. Please visit the Kansas Labor Information Center (KLIC) website.
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Career and Technical Education (CTE)
Natalie D. Clark Assistant Director (785) 296-4351
KSDE Secondary-Level CTE Contacts
Deputy Commissioner: Division of Learning Services
Dr. Ben Proctor (785) 296-2303 bproctor@ksde.org
Director: Career, Standards and Assessment
Beth Fultz (785) 296-4639 bfultz@ksde.org
Assistant Director: Career and Technical Education (CTE)
Natalie D. Clark (785) 296-4351 ndclark@ksde.org
Assistant Director: Curricular Standards
Vacant
Assistant Director: Assessment
Julie Ewing (785) 296-2325 jewing@ksde.org
Assistant Director: Kansas Volunteer Commission
Dr. Jessica Dorsey (785) 296-3163 jdorsey@ksde.org
The Kansas State Department of Education does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities. (more information...)
To accommodate people with disabilities, on request, auxiliary aides and services will be provided and reasonable modifications to policies and programs will be made. To request accommodations or for more information please contact the Office of General Counsel at gc@ksde.org or by 785-296-3201.