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U-M research helps expand access to career and technical education

Sep 14, 2026 U-M Look to Michigan
More than 46,000 students in Washtenaw County, Michigan, will begin having greater access to career and technical education during the 2026–27 school year as a result of a November 2025 ballot measure establishing a new dedicated funding stream. This...
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Opinion: Research needed to make CTE more effective for students, state

May 27, 2025 Crain's Detroit Business
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer allocated $125 million for career and technical education (CTE) in her recent budget proposal, the largest funding allocation for CTE ever in the state of Michigan. CTE is popular on both sides of the aisle. A recent review of n...
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In the Media

Michigan board of education seeks greater technical education funding

Jan 16, 2025 Michigan Advance
The resolution, which passed by a 7-1 vote, states that “CTE offers students opportunities to earn college credit, industry certification, and licenses in high-wage, high-skill, and in-demand fields,” ranging from agriculture to skilled trades, to pu...
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Report

Livingston County College and Career Opportunities Study

October 14, 2026
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Lynn Meissner, Katja Robinson
View accessible text version of the report The Livingston Educational Service Agency (LESA) partnered with the Youth Policy Lab on a report about Advanced Placement (AP), Dual Enrollment (DE), Early Middle College (EMC), and Career and Technical Educ...
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Report

Inequities in CTE Access in Washtenaw County

July 20, 2024
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Brian Jacob, Jeremy Guardiola
This report is a continuation of the Youth Policy Lab’s (YPL) examination of access to career and technical education (CTE) programming. Whereas our 2022 policy brief titled How Access to CTE Varies Across Michigan Schools and Students analyzed this ...
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Report

KRESA CTE Labor Market Analysis

February 10, 2021
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Brian Jacob, Jeremy Guardiola
KRESA Superintendent David Campbell approached YPL to ask for assistance identifying CTE programs the center should offer. Specifically, Superintendent Campbell is focused on implementing programs that will prepare students to enter high-wage occupat...
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Report

Grow Detroit's Young Talent

April 30, 2018
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Brian Jacob, Kelly Lovett, Max Gross
Even as the U.S. economy has climbed out of the Great Recession, the labor force participation of low-skill workers has lagged. In many high-poverty urban areas, more than half of low-educated men have exited the labor market.1 In Detroit, 22 percent...
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Career Pathways in Michigan

January 2020 - December 2023
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Brian Jacob, Lynn Meissner
Funder: Michigan Department of EducationIn an effort to ensure all Michigan high school students are on paths to economic success, the Lab partnered with Michigan Department of Education’s Office of Career and Technical Education and the Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Opportunity to conduct research on the experiences and outcomes of young people that pursue career-focused educational pathways relative to peers who pursue other educational pathways. The team sought to understand the following questions: Who enrolls in secondary and post-secondary career pathway programs in Michigan?  ...
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Career and Technical Education in Kalamazoo

September 2020 - December 2020
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Brian Jacob
Kalamazoo County passed a Career and Technical Education (CTE) millage in 2019 and wanted to use this new source of funding to restructure CTE delivery within the Kalamazoo Regional Education Service Agency (KRESA).   In addition to expanding career awareness and exploration opportunities among younger students, millage revenues were designated to build a new countywide technical center. KRESA approached YPL to ask for assistance identifying CTE programs the center should offer.  This project sought to answer the following research questions: Which occupations are projected to exhibit the grea...
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