A proposed budget put forth by California Governor Jerry Brown has instructors and students involved in Career Technical Education programs worried. For more than a decade, SB 1070 has allocated an annual amount of $48 million to be divided between the California Community College Chancellor’s Office and the California Department of Education, with the CCCCO retaining $33 million and the CDE receiving the remaining $15 million each year. Brown’s proposed 2017-18 budget would put a stop to that split, however, and allocate the entire $48 million to the CCCCO, effectively defunding the CTE programs supported by the CDE. Perhaps the biggest program under fire is the Future Farmers of America and other agricultural education.
Proposed state budget takes aim at FFA and other career programs
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