CCC System Office CTE Report

Career Technical Education In Peril

Postsecondary CTE course enrollment compared to total course enrollment, 1992-2005

California 08 Budget Predicament

Solve for X

+ 10,000 CSU re-directs+ Growing enrollments due to economy+ Continuing crisis in high schools+ Impact of concurrent enrollments+ Impact of AB2448 (ROCP re-focus)+ Property Tax Shortfall- 50,000 cutbacks= X

Budget Impact

KQED radio, March 21, 2008• University of California (UC) Provost Rory

Hume• California State University (CSU) Chancellor

Charlie Reed• California Community Colleges Chancellor

Diane Woodruff Discussed the impact of proposed budget cuts

to higher education

Budget Impact

CSU Chancellor Reed:• For the first time, CSU closed enrollment on

March 1 for more than 10,000 incoming college freshman students normally eligible to attend the CSU.

• Predicted that many of those students will register at a community college.

Declines in Secondary Enrollments

• CTE as a Percent of Secondary Enrollment

High School Graduation Rates

California 08 Budget Predicament

Property Tax shortfall - Current FY 2007Statewide property tax shortfall of

approximately $74 million in 2007-08, tentative

Current preliminary estimates, the deficit will be approximately 1.2 percent of total computational revenues.

Protecting CTE vs. Budget Predicament

Topic of CTE Advisory Committee• Federal Perkins funding • Difficult to restore. CTE faculty, equipment, specialized

facilities and supplies • Gateway for business and industry support • Economic and social health of community

Public Safety• A high school dropout is eight times as likely to be incarcerated in a California prison as a high school graduate

• If the graduation rate was increased by ten percentage points, there would be 500 fewer murders and 22,000 fewer aggravated assaults annually in California

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids

Economic Consequences• A high school graduate will earn $290,000 more than a dropout

• Government loses $169,000 in reduced tax revenues from non-graduates

• Dropouts cost the California economy $46 billion annually -- $34 billion in reduced economic activity and $12 billion in crime victim costsCalifornia Dropout Project, University of California Santa Barbara

The economic and social health of communities

Chancellor Reed: • …the three public higher education systems are at risk• but what’s more at a bigger risk is the state’s economy. • “If these three great systems don’t feed the economy

with the workforce that they need, with the research that they need, with the technical skills that it needs, then California will no longer be as competitive as it’s been in the past. And you’re going to see personal income start to drop in California, and that’s going to be devastating to the economy and citizens of this state.”

America’s Skills Gap is in the Middle of the Labor Market

Options -- Solutions

Partnerships between secondary and postsecondary education•Intuitively, the benefits can include engaged and academically thriving secondary students, “feeder” schools for our CTE programs, and economies of scale in the use of facilities and other resources. Opportunities for concurrent enrollment also exist.

Options -- Solutions

Partnerships among community colleges can be very productive•When feasible, consortium solutions can better serve students through enrollment options, avoid unnecessary duplications, and increase colleges’ responsiveness to changing requirements.

Options -- Solutions

Partnerships with business and industry have strong potential •Access to learning stations with “state of the art” equipment and current industry practices can benefit our students. •Employers report they don’t want to take our role; they wish to be a “value added” component of our students’ education.

Options -- Solutions

Local innovative efforts