Advocates Warn Voc. Ed. Cuts May Be Afoot
Some of the nation's largest career and technical education organizations are openly voicing worries that the Bush administration may attempt to eliminate funding for the federal vocational education program, or transfer its functions to the Department of Labor.
Concerns about potential budget cuts were so great last week that at least two vocational education advocacy groups warned their members by Internet and e- mail to urge members of Congress to fight any such proposal—whether it exists officially on paper or not.
The Association for Career and Technical Education, in Alexandria, Va., announced last week in a posting on its Web site that it had learned through "reliable sources" that the administration would propose to eliminate funding for the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act. That law is the primary funding mechanism within the Department of Education's office of...
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