Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V)

Reauthorized Perkins (2018)

• invests in secondary & postsecondary CTE programs
• federal education program
• nearly $1.3 billion annually

Purpose

• increase learner access to locally developed high-quality career pathways
  • based on 16 Montana Career Pathways
• system alignment from secondary to post-secondary to workplace
• continual CTE program improvement
  • helps meet everchanging needs of learners & employers