Key Documents

  • "Next Generation Career and Technical Education in New York City"  Final Report and Recommendations of the Mayoral Task Force on Career and Technical Education Innovation.  July 2008
  • Currently, approximately 110,000 students are enrolled in 285 CTE programs of study and in individual CTE elective courses.  Twenty-six designated “CTE schools” enroll approximately 30,000 of these students; the remainder attend comprehensive high schools around the city.

    In 2001, NYSED introduced a CTE program approval process to foster high quality career and technical education programs.  Seventy-one (71) programs in New York City are currently approved by the State, and reflect elements of enhanced quality and student outcomes.  Students completing a State approved program of study are eligible for a technical endorsement on their diploma.
  • This memo is intended to clarify the eligibility of students for the CTE technical endorsement upon their graduation from a New York City high school.   Information also addresses the use of the physical endorsement on a students diploma and the use of ATS codes for appropriately documenting these students upon graduation.  
  • New York State Education Department’s list of approved programs.
  • A link to the New York State Education Department Career and Technical Education page.