News and Announcements

2010 Fall Workshops

The Pennsylvania Association of Career and Technical Administrators is proud to annouce its 2010 Fall Workshops, September 28-29,2010 at the Nittany Lion Inn in State College, PA. On-line Registration    Read More

Rendell previews $282 million in budget cuts, natural gas tax to close FMAP gap.

  Governor Rendell today proposed a 1.9 percent freeze for many parts of budget, including $5 million from courts, $6 million from Legislature. Unlike budget talks, Rendell has the power to impose these budget freezes himself. By Peter L. DeCoursey Bureau Chief Capitolwire Gov. Ed Rendell and legislative leaders are again discussing how best to cut the budget, but this time Rendell has the ...   Read More

2010 PACTA Summer Leadership Conference Resources

2010 PACTA Summer Leadership Conference resources are now available! Clink here: Summer Leadership Conference    Read More

Pennsylvania education organizations awarded funds in highly competitive federal innovation competition.

 Two Pennsylvania education organizations are receiving up to $30 million in federal Recovery Act funding to further develop promising innovations in education that will benefit Pennsylvania students, acting Education Secretary Thomas E. Gluck announced today. Children's Learning Initiative, based in Philadelphia, and ASSET Inc., based in Pittsburgh, were awarded highly-competitive ...   Read More

PA team to present case for Race to the Top funds next week

On Wednesday, Aug. 11, a team from Pennsylvania will present its proposal for education reform to the reviewers scoring its federal Race to the Top application in Washington, D.C. Pennsylvania was named on July 27 as one of 19 finalists for a Race to the Top grant of up to $400 million. Each of the state finalists will make a team presentation to the reviewers scoring its application, and reviewers ...   Read More

Is College Overrated, published in USA Today, July 8, 2010

Is College Overrated, published in USA Today, July 8, 2010 By Patrick Welsh Three weeks ago, the school system in Alexandria, Va., announced that 80% of the students who were about to graduate from T.C. Williams High School would be going on to college. That's an impressive statistic for a school that is 79% minority, with more than half its kids on a free or reduced-cost lunch program. But when ...   Read More

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Tech School May Install Solar Farm

Tech school may install solar farm By: CHRISTINA KRISTOFIC Bucks County Courier Times Administrators at the Middle Bucks Institute of Technology know that the road to the future is green. And they want to make sure the school and its students are ready to take it. School administrators presented a plan Wednesday night to install a 70,000-square-foot solar farm on school property - to help reduce ...   Read More

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2010-2011 TAP ACTIVITIES REGISTRATION

Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program Improving Academic and Occupational Achievement in Career and Technical Education     TAP ACTIVITIES CALENDAR     On-line ...   Read More

State Board approves Technical Institute Guidelines

The State Board of Vocational Education on July 1 unanimously approved Guidelines for Technical Institutes. This action is the culmination of years of work by many current and former State Board members, PDE staff, legislators, and PACTA members. Lee Burket and her staff are to be congratulated on the passage of these Guidelines. You can view the guidelines by going to: ...   Read More

2010 Fall General Membership Meeting

PACTA Fall General Membership Meeting The next PACTA General Membership meeting is scheduled for October 20, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. until Noon at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in the State College. Registration for the meeting will begin at 8 a.m. The PACTA Executive Committee will meet the evening before, October 19, from 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. also at the Penn Stater Conference Center ...   Read More