February 16, 2007

Vocational Programs Escape Elimination

By KARIN FISCHER

A year after deriding it as ineffective, President Bush would now spare the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education program from oblivion but subject it to a sharp cut.

Under the president's proposed budget for 2008, the vocational-education program would receive $617.4-million, down 52.6 percent from the 2006 fiscal year, the most recent year in which a federal budget was signed into law. Congress, which voted to extend the Perkins program last August, is expected to agree to a

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