Career and Vocational

High Tech Career Program Gets National Attention

9 Feb 2012

A Carroll County high tech career program is turning heads in Washington and, according to 11 News education reporter Tim Tooten, has become a sort of national model.

Union Grove ISD preaches value of career education

9 Feb 2012

UNION GROVE — Miranda Streed always enjoyed going to Starbucks, but she didn’t imagine she’d be preparing and serving coffee in her high school library — and she certainly didn’t imagine she’d be earning a certification to take into the workforce for it.

Math teacher hiring spurs suit in Westmoreland

8 Feb 2012

The union representing teachers at the Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center is suing the Jeannette City School District over the district's refusal to hire teachers who were furloughed from the vocational-technical school.