Perkins Career and Technical Education Program

Delaware recognizes the need for a broad array of quality educational programs for life–long learners and for students who have not been successful within the regular school program. Often, in an instructional setting more appropriate to their needs, these students become highly successful at school and in the workplace. As the number and scope of alternative learning environments increase, more students will spend some portion of their academic careers outside of the traditional educational delivery system. While alternative education programs often work to return the student to the educational mainstream including the home school, where appropriate, many students will derive substantial educational benefits from the alternative school program and will therefore spend a significant portion of their educational careers in the alternative setting. Given this context, the State’s role in the implementation of Perkins IV is to help ensure that students in alternative learning environments are not denied access to CTE. The State has developed strategies to address this concern.