On June 26, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved its long-awaited draft bill to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006. The new bill does not have a number yet, but is titled the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act. The bipartisan bill was approved unanimously by voice vote, and will now move forward in the legislative process to the full Senate.
While the Senate bill does use the House Perkins reauthorization bill, H.R. 2353, passed last year, as its base, there are significant changes, particularly to accountability provisions, in the bill. ACTE has been working with the Committee to ensure that these changes align with our Perkins reauthorization priorities, and will continue these conversations as the process moves forward. You can read our joint statement with Advance CTE on the markup here, and the letter we sent to the Committee outlining more specific thoughts on the bill here. We will have a full summary available soon.
In addition, the Committee also considered the nomination of Scott Stump to be Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education, Department of Education. By voice vote, the Committee favorably reported the nomination to the full Senate, where it must be considered before Mr. Stump is officially confirmed. ACTE strongly supports this nomination and looks forward to the completion of the nomination process and working with Mr. Stump as OCTAE’s new Assistant Secretary.
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