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Career Advancement Academies in the Daily Breeze

Welding Prospects are on Fire El Camino College’s welding CAA program is featured in the Daily Breeze... Read More

Student Success Conference October 12 -14 2011

Across California, colleges are experimenting with dozens of approaches to improving career technical education, and their efforts are generating tangible results. The 2011 Strengthening Student Success conference offers a one-stop opportunity for CTE faculty and coordinators to find out what’s wo... Read More

New Reports on Basic Skills

New Reports on Basic Skills by The California Budget Project (CBP) California’s Basic Skills Students: Who Succeeds and Why Gateway to a Better Future: Creating a Basic Skills Sytem for California... Read More

Hands Across California

California’s community college system is the largest in the nation—112 colleges spanning the state and providing education and job training to nearly 3 million students every year. Yet every day, students struggle to pay for the cost of an education and face the difficult decision of giving up t... Read More

Career and Technical Education Pathways Initiative

Career and Technical Education Pathways Initiative California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Fourth Annual Report December 2010 The CAAs are featured in the fourth annual report on pages 38-42.  ... Read More

Issue Brief: Career Pathways and the Hard to Employ

Featuring examples from initiatives that combine the efforts of employers, educators, and workforce development experts, this brief identifies key principles for successfully implementing career ladders and pathways in programs that allow hard-to-employ job-seekers to enter and advance in the workfo... Read More

New Automotive Career Advancement Academy funded by EDD

State grants totaling $19 million will help train nearly 3,000 Californians for jobs in a wide range of clean and green industries, including hybrid and electric vehicles, alternative fuels and renewable energy generation. “California is already seeing green job growth but we must continue working... Read More

Los Angeles Healthcare Career Advancement Academy is awarded multiple grant

Recent News! Los Angeles Healthcare Career Advancement Academy is awarded multiple grant (ARRA) funds to train 20 cohorts of students over the next year.... Read More

Los Angeles Healthcare Career Advancement Academy

Colleges Los Angeles Community College District (lead) East Los Angeles College Los Angeles City College Los Angeles Harbor College Los Angeles Mission College Los Angeles Southwest College Los Angeles Trade-Technical College Los Angeles Valley College Los Angeles Pierce College West Los Angeles Col... Read More

Pressures of New Students and Old Weigh on Community Colleges

Pressures of New Students and Old Weigh on Community Colleges K. Mieszkowski The New York Times April 8, 2010... Read More