Robinson’s career-technical education bill could align with governor’s vocational plan
Culinary arts students Joshua Ivory (left) and Katrice Jones bake cookies during class at the Trezevant Career and Technology Center where high school students from the Raleigh-Frayser area can attend classes in vocational programs like culinary arts, cosmotology and finance. In an effort to get kids on a career track earlier, Sen. Katrina Robinson is backing a piece of legislation that would help middle schools start career and technical education courses. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
State Sen. Katrina Robinson’s proposal to put career and technical education in middle schools could mesh with Gov. Bill Lee’s newly unveiled vocational education plan.
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Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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