Career And Technical Education (CTE)

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Career and Technical Education (CTE) is a new and improve way of educating students through academic programs that are integrated with critical thinking, collaboration, problem solving, teamwork, and communication. He programs has hands on experience in a multitude of technical jobs that will ensure students success in secondary education and in the workforce. The Federal Tech Preprogram understood the dire need to lay the foundation for linking high school, college, and work-force together by assisting student’s to transition from one stage of their life to the

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