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High schools under pressure to send more graduates to college could be keeping them from potentially lucrative jobs in high- demand technical and manufacturing fields.
Kathryn Ingram, director of the A.W. Beattie Career Center, a vocational technical school in northern Allegheny County, said high schools that tout college enrollment figures for graduates might consider technical education a dead end.See the full content of this document
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Vo-Tech Schools Long for a Few Good Grads
"A lot of times higher-end students have to fight with their home school to come here," Ingram said.
Competition for high school graduates with a strong foundation in math and science and technical training appears ...See the full content of this document
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