CareerTech launches Oklahoma Career Readiness Diploma
The approximately 279,000 Oklahomans without high school diplomas now have another way to earn the credential that will help them advance in careers or further their education.
Oklahoma CareerTech’s Adult Education and Family Literacy division has launched the Oklahoma Career Readiness Diploma, which allows participants to count scores from previous assessments, like the GED and HiSET tests, along with any credits they earned in high school.
The new program won’t replace GED or HiSET tests, but will simply offer students another pathway to high school equivalency.
“It’s another tool in our tool belt,” said Lance Allee, AEFL program specialist and Career Readiness Diploma liaison. Oklahoma CareerTech became responsible for adult education and family literacy in 2014 after the state legislature voted to move the adult education grant to ODCTE from the Oklahoma State Department of Education.
Read more on the Oklahoma CareerTech website.
CareerTech director speaks on ‘Flash Point’
Oklahoma CareerTech Director Brent Haken talked about CareerTech achievements and its budget request on “Flash Point” on KFOR Sunday evening.
CareerTech is asking the legislature for an increase of $68 million to teach more people the skills Oklahoma business and industry say they need in the workforce.
Haken also spoke about the enrollment increase in CareerTech programs and about providing students opportunities to pursue their passions while learning skills that will help them earn a great living.
Watch the video on the KFOR website.
EOC Tech hosting Women Empowering Women Summit
Eastern Oklahoma County Technology Center in Choctaw will host a Women Empowering Women Summit from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 26.
Speakers at the conference, which is planned as a day of motivation, leadership and connection, will include Amy Walton, Marian Redwine, Andrea Golden-Pogue and Mark Wilson.
Registration is $99 and includes a catered lunch.
Podcast features CareerTech state director
Oklahoma CareerTech State Director Brent Haken appeared on the Frontier Mindset Podcast recently.
He talked about his background and the CareerTech system on the podcast, which is dedicated to interviewing entrepreneurs, business owners and local leaders.
Listen to the podcast on Spotify.
State superintendent talks about CareerTech
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Lindel Fields recently talked to Oklahoma CareerTech about his history with the system.
Fields said the CareerTech system played a formative role in his life. He graduated in 1989 from Tulsa Technology Center, where he was a member of a CareerTech student organization.
He began his career as a horticulture instructor at the Dick Conner Correctional Center and moved to several other positions in the CareerTech system before serving as superintendent and CEO at Tri County Technology Center.
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