The Senate passed their Perkins Career and Technical Education Act reauthorization today -- reportedly by unanimous consent. Called the "Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act,” this is the bill the HELP committee approved late last month. Total surprise to me. As late as Friday of last week, I was asking around and no one knew when it might go to the floor, and no one seemed to know. I guess I wasn’t asking the right people! As you will recall, the House passed its own CTE bill (which has the same name as the Senate version) last year. Andrew Ujifusa just posted a brief recap for Education Week: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2018/07/trump-education-priority-career-technical-bill-senate-passes.html Other links: Statement from AACTE and Advance CTE: https://careertech.org/acte-advance-cte-statement-upon-passage-senate-perkins-cte-bill Statement by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA): https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=402932 HELP Committee statement: https://www.help.senate.gov/ranking/newsroom/press/enzi-casey-alexander-murray-applaud-senate-passage-of-bipartisan-career-and-technical-education-bill- More updates tomorrow, but I wanted to give you a heads-up on this one… Jeff