The Hot New Gen-Z Trend Is Skipping College

On a recent Wednesday morning, about 20 students at Queens Technical High School marched into a supply closet and retrieved what looked, to an outsider, like silver suitcases. They sat back down at the classroom’s U-shaped table arrangement and opened what were in fact “advanced cable trainers,” kits containing the cables and wire cutters they’d be working with throughout their senior year. Meanwhile, their teacher, David Abreu, began to lecture them about what it’s like out “in industry”—the vocational school term for the proverbial “real world.” Read the full story on VICE.com.

SkillsUSA Membership Exceeds Last Year’s Record, Sets New All-time High

SkillsUSA, the #1 workforce development organization for students, has surpassed last year’s record membership setting a new all-time high of career and technical education student and teacher members in middle schools, high schools and college/postsecondary institutions nationwide.

February 14, 2025

CLA Foundation Teams Up with SkillsUSA to Drive U.S. Workforce Development Efforts

The CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen LLP) Foundation is providing $500,000 in funding to SkillsUSA, the leading workforce development organization for students, to help develop the next generation of leaders and spark further exploration of trade careers.

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