Career and Technology Education

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Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI. Madam Speaker, as the coauthor of the bipartisan Strengthening Career and Technical Education in the 21st Century Act-- the largest reform of skills-based education in more than a dozen years--I rise today to celebrate one institution that has become a national exemplar.

I am honored to join Congressman August Pfluger from Texas in recognizing Dr. Gregory Williams at Odessa College. Odessa College has been named a top-10 community college by the Aspen Institute. Dr. Williams has seen both enrollment as well as students with passing grades increase year after year.

When we reformed CTE in 2018 and increased Federal funding by over 10 percent, we did so with educators like Dr. Williams in mind.

I commend Dr. Williams and Odessa College for their tremendous success. I will continue fighting for robust funding for skills-based and vocational education funding so that programs like Odessa's can flourish in my State of Illinois as well as across the country.

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