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CCC System Office CTE Report Career Technical Education In Peril Postsecondary CTE course enrollment compared to total course enrollment, 1992-2005 California 08 Budget Predicament Solve for X + + + + + + = 10,000 CSU re-directs Growing enrollments due to economy Continuing crisis in high schools Impact of concurrent enrollments Impact of AB2448 (ROCP re-focus) Property Tax Shortfall 50,000 cutbacks X Budget Impact KQED radio, March 21, 2008 • University of California (UC) Provost Rory Hume • California State University (CSU) Chancellor Charlie Reed • California Community Colleges Chancellor Diane Woodruff Discussed the impact of proposed budget cuts to higher education Budget Impact CSU Chancellor Reed: • For the first time, CSU closed enrollment on March 1 for more than 10,000 incoming college freshman students normally eligible to attend the CSU. • Predicted that many of those students will register at a community college. Declines in Secondary Enrollments • CTE as a Percent of Secondary Enrollment High School Graduation Rates California 08 Budget Predicament Property Tax shortfall - Current FY 2007 Statewide property tax shortfall of approximately $74 million in 2007-08, tentative Current preliminary estimates, the deficit will be approximately 1.2 percent of total computational revenues. Protecting CTE vs. Budget Predicament Topic of CTE Advisory Committee • Federal Perkins funding • Difficult to restore. CTE faculty, equipment, specialized facilities and supplies • Gateway for business and industry support • Economic and social health of community Public Safety • A high school dropout is eight times as likely to be incarcerated in a California prison as a high school graduate • If the graduation rate was increased by ten percentage points, there would be 500 fewer murders and 22,000 fewer aggravated assaults annually in California Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Economic Consequences • A high school graduate will earn $290,000 more than a dropout • Government loses $169,000 in reduced tax revenues from non-graduates • Dropouts cost the California economy $46 billion annually -- $34 billion in reduced economic activity and $12 billion in crime victim costs California Dropout Project, University of California Santa Barbara The economic and social health of communities Chancellor Reed: • …the three public higher education systems are at risk • but what’s more at a bigger risk is the state’s economy. • “If these three great systems don’t feed the economy with the workforce that they need, with the research that they need, with the technical skills that it needs, then California will no longer be as competitive as it’s been in the past. And you’re going to see personal income start to drop in California, and that’s going to be devastating to the economy and citizens of this state.” America’s Skills Gap is in the Middle of the Labor Market Options -- Solutions Partnerships between secondary and postsecondary education • Intuitively, the benefits can include engaged and academically thriving secondary students, “feeder” schools for our CTE programs, and economies of scale in the use of facilities and other resources. Opportunities for concurrent enrollment also exist. Options -- Solutions Partnerships among community colleges can be very productive • When feasible, consortium solutions can better serve students through enrollment options, avoid unnecessary duplications, and increase colleges’ responsiveness to changing requirements. Options -- Solutions Partnerships with business and industry have strong potential • Access to learning stations with “state of the art” equipment and current industry practices can benefit our students. • Employers report they don’t want to take our role; they wish to be a “value added” component of our students’ education. Options -- Solutions Local innovative efforts