Be on the lookout THIS WEEK for surveys related to the National Evaluation of CTE under Perkins V (NECTEP), a major research project authorized under the National Program section of the Perkins Act!

Surveys will be distributed the week of August 28 by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences (IES). Surveys will be distributed to CTE state directors and a random sample of school districts across the country. Within school districts, the surveys should go to the CTE Director or Perkins Coordinator, but could end up with other contacts, so keep an eye out!

If you receive one of these surveys, please take the time to fill it out carefully as soon as possible. These surveys are your opportunity to directly inform both IES and Congress about what’s happening in the field. Reporting on your experiences implementing Perkins V will help ensure federal policymakers have an accurate picture of how Perkins V is working nationwide. Without your survey responses, that picture will be incomplete.

Here is a bit more information on why the NECTEP surveys are a critical part of the study:

• IES and its contractor—AIR—will use information from the surveys to report on key aspects of Perkins V implementation.
• The surveys will provide new data on how states and districts are administering CTE under Perkins V. The last comparable survey data on federally funded CTE was collected over 13 years ago, and a lot has changed since then!
• Reports based on the survey results will inform Congress about how states and districts are implementing Perkins V and may inform future reauthorizations of Perkins.

Thank you in advance for doing your part to inform federal CTE policy! Please let us know if you have any questions.