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February 07, 2019

SkillsUSA Celebrates Workforce Development with National Advocacy Day on Feb. 5

SkillsUSA students serving as national officers visited Washington, D.C., Feb. 5 to advocate for SkillsUSA and career and technical education (CTE) during SkillsUSA Week and CTE Month.

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January 23, 2019

Opening the Door to High-Demand Jobs: SkillsUSA Week Kicks Off Feb. 3

Channellock, Inc., and Toyota USA Foundation Sponsor National Celebration to Support Workforce Development, Close Skills Gap Leesburg, Va. — From South Pasadena High School in California to Pulaski County Technical Education…

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January 18, 2019

2019 SkillsUSA Week Chapter Grant Winners Announced

Congratulations to the recipients of the SkillsUSA Week grant. These grants of up to $1,000 are sponsored in partnership with Channellock and Toyota. Chapters were selected based on their…

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December 19, 2018

Ignore Email Solicitations Claiming to Sell SkillsUSA Lists

Periodically, people affiliated with SkillsUSA receive emails from various companies trying to sell an attendee list from one of our conferences or from SkillsUSA TECHSPO. These are not…

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November 05, 2018

SkillsUSA Participates in Education Dialogue Between U.S. and China

On October 31, SkillsUSA executive director Tim Lawrence participated in the 4th U.S.-China State and Provincial Education Leaders Dialogue: Technical and Vocational Education and Training. The meeting gathered officials…

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October 03, 2018

WorldSkills USA Will Go for Gold in Kazan, Russia, at Global Trade Skills Competition

Competitors will represent the United States against the greatest young talents in the world Leesburg, Va. — SkillsUSA today revealed 22 young competitors who will represent the…

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September 28, 2018

SkillsUSA Team Visits Rep. Krishnamoorthi During WLTI

National student leaders (left to right) Guadalupe Cortez, Adam Cavanaugh and Brooke Gatchell met with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) in his Capitol Hill office Sept. 25, 2018, as part of…

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August 22, 2018

Forbes Cites Top 25 Two-Year Trade Schools; SkillsUSA Chapters Among Them

For the second year, Forbes magazine has ranked the nation’s top two-year trade schools, in a list of technical and career colleges with high-earning alumni, stand-out graduation and retention rates,…

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August 02, 2018

President Reauthorizes Perkins Career and Technical Education Act

SkillsUSA celebrates President Trump’s signing of H.R. 2353, the “Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act,” which officially reauthorizes the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act,…

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