Workforce skill development

Bruce makes the point that "In fact, 43% of our students leave high school unprepared for a specific career." Integration of academics will not train students for careers...at best school to career model that is proposed in the master plan is a "job awareness and limited job shadow experiences". Career and Technical educators would become proponents of a master plan that addressed the training needs of that 43%.  Career pathways and ladders don't track students.  Qualified Career and Technical education teachers have the training and the program to help students focus on building skills, skills that are marketable, current and by working with a qualified CTE instructor students are also able to see connections and transferability to other industries.   The master plan has failed to discuss the training plan for CTE teachers...big omission!!!  Maybe integrating more academics into career and technical courses with more rigor and having the Universities accept those CTE courses for more academic credits would be an interesting solution.  Should business english receive english credits?  Should nutrition science receive science?  Those battles within secondary departments and entrance requirements to colleges to happen...some courses are allowed credit while others aren't...The master plan needs to give the Career and Technical training courses an equal importance to academics.  I agree that in a perfect world academic and career courses would be blurred.  Currently because of college entrance requirement the "playing field" at the secondary level isn't equal for courses, regardless of course/program/training quality of the CTE course.