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This brief discusses the implementation of career pathways under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), and considerations for state adult education staff in developing career pathways systems to support individuals in their pursuit...

Workforce Pell opens up potential for students to access federal financial aid for programs that have not traditionally been eligible. But it is more than that. Its design requires cross-system implementation efforts that link higher education...

To help clarify the association between Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Registered Apprenticeships (RA), the National Center for Innovation in Career and Technical Education (NCICTE) undertook a systematic review of the programmatic,...

A Primer on CTE.

This page is part of a series on Integrated Systems: Resources for WIOA Program Alignment. The resources on this page are intended to help facilitate collaboration and co-enrollment across Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Core...

Over the past three years, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) supported the Increasing IET Opportunities for Adults project, which designed and delivered an IET Design Toolkit and IET Design...

The Department of Labor issued Training and Employment Notice (TEN) 04-26, Promoting High-Quality Industry-Recognized Credentials in August 2026. TEN 04-26 explains how to identify and find high-quality industry-recognized credentials, suggests...

Advance CTE's National Career Clusters Framework consists of 14 Clusters and 72 Sub-clusters and serves as the primary organizing structure for Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. Review the resources on this page to learn more.