Technical Education

Per Scholas, a New York-based nonprofit that focuses on low-income adults, started a tuition-free education program in a borough of Pittsburgh with focuses on fields like cybersecurity, IT and software engineering.

Citing redundancies in the federal government, the Trump administration's new workforce development partnership shifts oversight of adult education and career training programs to the Department of Labor.

A partnership between a recently established economic development organization and various credentialing and education programs in the region will promote cybersecurity, robotics, IT, STEM and other fields.

On-time graduation rates at Greeley-Evans School District 6 have jumped from 77.1 percent in 2016 to 87.3 percent in 2024, coinciding with the launch of career pathway program that teachers say is engaging students.

A week of STEM camps involved classes designed and taught by Innovation Center student designers and teachers, with projects that included building and coding robots and writing scripts for cybersecurity tasks.

The 2026-27 Ohio budget mandates that K-12 districts create policies to govern the use of artificial intelligence and cellphones, and offers a handful of $100,000 grants to community colleges for implementing AI.

Projects announced at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University this week included new workforce training programs as well as cybersecurity education for middle and high schoolers.

A new $23 million initiative by the American Federation of Teachers, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthology aims to train 400,000 educators in ethical, effective use of AI in the classroom by 2030.

High school participants in the New York Power Authority’s first paid cybersecurity fellowship program this summer received hands-on training and experience in cybersecurity in preparation for CompTIA A+ certification.

Microsoft Elevate, which the company describes as a successor and expansion of the longtime Microsoft Philanthropies team, will devote resources to helping more than 20 million people earn AI credentials.

The settlement was a victory for students and advocates who have made complaints nationwide over colleges lending their names to online courses that have few ties to campus faculty or typical university oversight.

Organizers for CyberPatriot camps like those hosted by Calhoun Community College say they've seen a trend of rising interest among middle and high schoolers in cybersecurity and IT-related fields.

SoCal OASIS Park will cultivate industry partnerships and focus on six areas: clean energy, agricultural technology, sustainable transportation, natural resource management, community health and workforce readiness.

University System of Maryland students will have free access to Google Career Certificates in cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing and e-commerce, IT support, project management and UX design.

Four community colleges in Pennsylvania are working with state and federal public agencies, local CTE schools and labor unions on a Career & Technology Academy and a hybrid MicroCredential Academy.

Citing workforce demand for professionals in these fields, as well as the importance of flexibility for students, the university will offer new online degrees with focuses including cybersecurity and business analytics.

With hundreds of millions of state and federal dollars pouring into regional training programs for the semiconductor industry, colleges are placing students right after graduation, and local high schools are buying in, too.

RiverTech, a high school being built by Goodwin University, will teach elements of business, entrepreneurship and technology, with an emphasis on new technology and concentrations in fields such as AI and cybersecurity.