Sec. 2. Findings
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Congress finds the following: The average high school graduation rate for students concentrating in career and technical education programs is 91.8 percent. Career and technical education concentrators improved their 12th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress scores by 8 points in reading and 11 in mathematics, while students who took no career and technical education courses did not increase their mathematics scores and only increased reading by 4 points. Students at schools with highly integrated rigorous academic and career and technical education programs have significantly higher achievement in reading, mathematics, and science than do students at schools with less integrated programs.
Four out of 5 graduates of secondary-level career or technical education programs who pursued postsecondary education after secondary school had earned a credential or were still enrolled in postsecondary education 2 years later.